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Author	vstinner
Recipients	hroncok, kj, lemburg, mdk, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date	2021-01-22.11:39:14
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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> Python's http.server at least warns about this in the docs: > https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html > and limits the serving to the current dir (and subdirs). I would be fine with a warning in the pydoc documentation, but I dislike warnings display on the command line. When I see such warning, I feel that the machine considers that I'm dumb and I have no idea of what I am doing. If it's unsafe, can we make it safe by default?

> Python's http.server at least warns about this in the docs:
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html
> and limits the serving to the current dir (and subdirs).

I would be fine with a warning in the pydoc documentation, but I dislike warnings display on the command line. When I see such warning, I feel that the machine considers that I'm dumb and I have no idea of what I am doing.

If it's unsafe, can we make it safe by default?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2021-01-22 11:39:14	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, lemburg, serhiy.storchaka, mdk, hroncok, kj
2021-01-22 11:39:14	vstinner	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
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