From 1647923bbf2a0257eefe5f4bbc44bd11e0d63659 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:02:28 +0000
Subject: #1492: allow overriding BaseHTTPServer's content type for error
 messages.

---
 Doc/library/basehttpserver.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Doc/library/basehttpserver.rst')

diff --git a/Doc/library/basehttpserver.rst b/Doc/library/basehttpserver.rst
index 2e8d6a3806..0f058a18e1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/basehttpserver.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/basehttpserver.rst
@@ -122,6 +122,15 @@ to a handler.  Code to create and run the server looks like this::
    class variable.
 
 
+.. attribute:: BaseHTTPRequestHandler.error_content_type
+
+   Specifies the Content-Type HTTP header of error responses sent to the client.
+   The default value is ``'text/html'``.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 2.6
+      Previously, the content type was always ``'text/html'``.
+
+
 .. attribute:: BaseHTTPRequestHandler.protocol_version
 
    This specifies the HTTP protocol version used in responses.  If set to
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