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A patch for slow BaseHTTPServer's default handler.
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patch_basehttpserver.py
# This is a hack to patch slow socket.getfqdn calls that
# BaseHTTPServer (and its subclasses) make.
# See: http://bugs.python.org/issue6085
# See: http://www.answermysearches.com/xmlrpc-server-slow-in-python-how-to-fix/2140/
import BaseHTTPServer
def _bare_address_string(self):
host, port = self.client_address[:2]
return str(host)
BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.address_string = \
_bare_address_string
# End hack.
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