SimpleHTTPRequestHandler has hard coded index page list.

[myronww]

BPO	47063
Nosy	@ethanfurman, @@myronww
PRs	bpo-47063 Add an index_pages default list and parameter to SimpleHTTPRequestHandler #31985

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labels = ['type-feature', 'library', '3.11']
title = 'SimpleHTTPRequestHandler has hard coded index page list.'
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Linked PRs

• gh-91219: http - use subclassing to override index_pages attribute #100731

[myronww]

SimpleHTTPRequestHandler has hard coded index page list in the send_head method. The fixed hard-coded list means that if you want to have a custom index page that is not named "index.htm" or "index.html" then you have to override the send_head method. There is alot of code in send_head so overriding it is not optimal just to have a custom indexer filename.

[myronww]

I am adding a Github PR for this issue.

[ethanfurman]

index.htm[l] is pretty standard for the name of the index page. What's your use-case for wanting different names? Keep in mind that the word Simple is in the name for a reason.