[issue35292] Make SimpleHTTPRequestHandler load mimetypes lazily

[Danish Prakash]

Danish Prakash <grafitykoncept at gmail.com> added the comment:

I would like to work on this if you have not already started, Steve. 

> We should check whether people read from SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.extensions_map directly before calling guess_type(), and decide how quickly we can make the change.

Are you implying we make the change based on whether someone use SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.extensions_map before calling guess_type()? Could you please elaborate that a bit, thanks.

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