v0.6.0

Bugfixes

• The default mimetype for unknown file extensions will now be sent as
  "application/octet-stream" instead of "text/plain". The expectation is that
  it would be safer for a client to download an unknown file rather than
  attempting to display it inline as text.
• Fixed a bug that prevented loading the default mimetype definitions from
  /etc/mime.types and other system-level files.

Features

• The static file server now has a --rate-limit flag that can be used
  to define per-IP address rate limiting for requests. Requests that exceed
  the specified rate will receive a 44 SLOW DOWN error response.
• Server access logs are now directed to stdout instead of stderr.
  Error traceback and other messages will still be directed to stderr.
• File chunking size has been optimized for streaming large static files.

Examples

• Added an example that demonstrates how to use the new RateLimiter class
  (examples/rate_limit.py).