Martin Panter added the comment:

I think you should be able to reproduce this without Mailman or tox, by just 
running “python -m http.server”.

The problem is the “HTTP/0.9” protocol that Python is assuming does not include 
a header section, so there is no place to put a 400 status code or header 
fields. The HTTP 0.9 response is supposed to only be a HTML body; see 
<https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html> and 
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945#section-6>.

I think we should drop HTTP 0.9 response support from Python’s HTTP server, as 
well as the attempted but buggy request support. But there was a bit of 
resistance; see Issue 10721.

Another possibility would be to change default_request_version so that error 
responses are sent as HTTP 1.0. But there may be more fixes needed for this to 
continue the buggy HTTP 0.9 support; see Issue 26578.

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