Fixed #4946 -- Added some small improvements to Gzip middleware. Thanks, colin@owlfish.com.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@5875 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/django/middleware/gzip.py b/django/middleware/gzip.py
index a7c74481d0..9b2a5f3d22 100644
--- a/django/middleware/gzip.py
+++ b/django/middleware/gzip.py
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ class GZipMiddleware(object):
     on the Accept-Encoding header.
     """
     def process_response(self, request, response):
+        if response.status_code != 200 or len(response.content) < 200:
+            # Not worth compressing really short responses or 304 status
+            # responses, etc.
+            return response
+
         patch_vary_headers(response, ('Accept-Encoding',))
         
         # Avoid gzipping if we've already got a content-encoding or if the