Fix issue11442 - Add a charset parameter to the Content-type to avoid XSS attacks.
Patch by Tom N. (Backported from py3k codeline).
diff --git a/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py b/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py
index 86c669e..286731d 100644
--- a/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py
+++ b/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
import urllib
import urlparse
import cgi
+import sys
import shutil
import mimetypes
try:
@@ -132,7 +133,8 @@
length = f.tell()
f.seek(0)
self.send_response(200)
- self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
+ encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+ self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html; charset=%s" % encoding)
self.send_header("Content-Length", str(length))
self.end_headers()
return f