Fix issue11442 - Add a charset parameter to the Content-type to avoid XSS attacks.

orsenthil · orsenthil · commit 3853586e0caa · 2011-03-17T12:34:18.000+08:00
Patch by Tom N. (Backported from py3k codeline).
diff --git 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 @@ def list_directory(self, path):
         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
