[Bug #866222] Update docstrings.
diff --git a/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py b/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py
index d58bdc3..d58f52f 100644
--- a/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py
+++ b/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py
@@ -25,9 +25,8 @@
"""Simple HTTP request handler with GET and HEAD commands.
This serves files from the current directory and any of its
- subdirectories. It assumes that all files are plain text files
- unless they have the extension ".html" in which case it assumes
- they are HTML files.
+ subdirectories. The MIME type for files is determined by
+ calling the .guess_type() method.
The GET and HEAD requests are identical except that the HEAD
request omits the actual contents of the file.
@@ -168,7 +167,7 @@
usable for a MIME Content-type header.
The default implementation looks the file's extension
- up in the table self.extensions_map, using text/plain
+ up in the table self.extensions_map, using application/octet-stream
as a default; however it would be permissible (if
slow) to look inside the data to make a better guess.