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Bug description:
When HTTPS is enabled, the command-line interface of http.server can't bind IPv6 addresses correctly and the --directory flag doesn't work.
bind IPv6
HTTPS server throw an exception when I was trying to bind a IPv6 address, but HTTP server can bind IPv6 address.
# HTTPS
$ ./python -m http.server --tls-cert ~/Projects/ssl/localhost.crt --tls-key ~/Projects/ssl/localhost.key -b ::1
# ...
TypeError: AF_INET address must be a pair (host, port)
# HTTP
$ ./python -m http.server -b ::1
Serving HTTP on ::1 port 8000 (http://[::1]:8000/) ...--directory issue
The HTTPS server always uses the work path of current terminal as its root directory and ignores the --directory flag:
# HTTPS
$ ./python -m http.server --tls-cert ~/Projects/ssl/localhost.crt --tls-key ~/Projects/ssl/localhost.key -d ~/test
Serving HTTPS on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (https://0.0.0.0:8000/) ...
127.0.0.1 - - [18/May/2025 13:28:16] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
$ curl -k https://0.0.0.0:8000/
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en">
<head>
# ...
</head>
<body>
<h1>Directory listing for /</h1>
<hr>
<ul>
<li><a href=".azure-pipelines/">.azure-pipelines/</a></li>
<li><a href=".coveragerc">.coveragerc</a></li>
<li><a href=".devcontainer/">.devcontainer/</a></li>
<li><a href=".editorconfig">.editorconfig</a></li>
<li><a href=".git/">.git/</a></li>
<li><a href=".gitattributes">.gitattributes</a></li>
<li><a href=".github/">.github/</a></li>
# ...
# Files in my cpython repo's root path
</ul>
<hr>
</body>
</html>
# HTTP
$ ./python -m http.server -d ~/test
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ...
127.0.0.1 - - [18/May/2025 13:24:30] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
$ curl http://0.0.0.0:8000/
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en">
<head>
# ...
</head>
<body>
<h1>Directory listing for /</h1>
<hr>
<ul>
<li><a href="1">1</a></li>
<li><a href="2">2</a></li>
<li><a href="3">3</a></li>
</ul>
<hr>
</body>
</html>CPython versions tested on:
CPython main branch
Operating systems tested on:
Linux