http://bugs.python.org/review/23410/diff/13940/Doc/library/http.server.rst File Doc/library/http.server.rst (right): http://bugs.python.org/review/23410/diff/13940/Doc/library/http.server.rst#n... Doc/library/http.server.rst:76: Normally contains the HTTP request line except for the I might simplify this to something like: "Once a valid request has been processed by handle_one_request, requestline should contain the string representation of the HTTP request line. The terminating CRLF is stripped." I don't think that getting into higher level behaviour (i.e. logging) should be detailed here. http://bugs.python.org/review/23410/