gis: Made necessary modifications for unicode, manage refactor, backend refactor and merged 5584-6000 via svnmerge from [repos:django/trunk trunk].

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/gis@6018 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

django/core/servers/basehttp.py

@@ -9,7 +9,13 @@ been reviewed for security issues. Don't use it for production use.
 
 from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
 from types import ListType, StringType
-import os, re, sys, time, urllib, mimetypes
+from email.Utils import formatdate
+import mimetypes
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+import time
+import urllib
 
 __version__ = "0.1"
 __all__ = ['WSGIServer','WSGIRequestHandler','demo_app']
@@ -370,7 +376,7 @@ class ServerHandler(object):
                 self._write('HTTP/%s %s\r\n' % (self.http_version,self.status))
                 if 'Date' not in self.headers:
                     self._write(
-                        'Date: %s\r\n' % time.asctime(time.gmtime(time.time()))
+                        'Date: %s\r\n' % (formatdate()[:26] + "GMT")
                     )
                 if self.server_software and 'Server' not in self.headers:
                     self._write('Server: %s\r\n' % self.server_software)