Bug #676273: Rewrite paragraph in module docstring
diff --git a/Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py b/Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py
index 2e7bb3f..69d417a 100644
--- a/Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py
+++ b/Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py
@@ -132,11 +132,11 @@
<path> is encoded using the URL encoding scheme (using %xx to signify
the ASCII character with hex code xx).
- The protocol is vague about whether lines are separated by LF
- characters or by CRLF pairs -- for compatibility with the widest
- range of clients, both should be accepted. Similarly, whitespace
- in the request line should be treated sensibly (allowing multiple
- spaces between components and allowing trailing whitespace).
+ The specification specifies that lines are separated by CRLF but
+ for compatibility with the widest range of clients recommends
+ servers also handle LF. Similarly, whitespace in the request line
+ is treated sensibly (allowing multiple spaces between components
+ and allowing trailing whitespace).
Similarly, for output, lines ought to be separated by CRLF pairs
but most clients grok LF characters just fine.