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 It serves gopher, duh.
 Modify lines 37 and 38 to configure.
-Will automatically attempts to execute anything with execute bit (except directories).
+Will automatically attempt to execute anything with execute bit (except directories).
 Requires Python 2, as Python 3's string handling it just weird.
 Also responds to HTTP queries.