diff -r 66d0f6ef2a7f Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py	Thu Feb 28 18:03:16 2013 +0200
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py	Wed Mar 06 11:05:01 2013 -0500
@@ -249,6 +249,9 @@
         #constructs the path relative to the root directory of the HTTPServer
         response = self.request(self.tempdir_name + '/test')
         self.check_status_and_reason(response, 200, data=self.data)
+        # check for trailing "/" which should return 404. See Issue17324
+        response = self.request(self.tempdir_name + '/test/')
+        self.check_status_and_reason(response, 404, data=self.data)
         response = self.request(self.tempdir_name + '/')
         self.check_status_and_reason(response, 200)
         response = self.request(self.tempdir_name)