René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"default http content-type","articleBody":"# Feature or enhancement\n\n### Proposal:\n\nAllow changing the default mime-type from `application/octet-stream`, so testing using `python -m http.server` doesn't automatically download files lacking extensions. Useful for testing with mitmproxy against a fake site copied from the real one.\n\n```bash\npython3 -m http.server -b 127.0.0.1 -c 'text/html'\n```\n\n\n### Has this already been discussed elsewhere?\n\nThis is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere\n\n### Links to previous discussion of this feature:\n\nNo previous discussion. This feature should not affect any existing code using the main branch of cpython.\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs -->\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-113475\n* gh-131000\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs -->\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jcomeauictx","@type":"Person","name":"jcomeauictx"},"datePublished":"2023-12-25T17:21:17Z","url":"https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/113471"}