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| author | Bouke Haarsma <bouke@webatoom.nl> | 2013-11-01 19:55:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2013-11-02 09:52:28 -0400 |
| commit | 073b974e6613adc88cade7d34af701e52e2cc8fd (patch) | |
| tree | b76a9b5c2450aad97e774976b7748b70cb8464ea /docs/ref | |
| parent | 61074353864293d3ea51e51e09cf4deedee12963 (diff) | |
Fixed #21354 -- Documented contrib.redirects defaults to 301 redirects
Thanks glarrain for the suggestion.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/contrib/redirects.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/redirects.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/redirects.txt index 817fc8228a..e987e3961c 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/redirects.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/redirects.txt @@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ The redirects app :synopsis: A framework for managing redirects. Django comes with an optional redirects application. It lets you store simple -redirects in a database and handles the redirecting for you. +redirects in a database and handles the redirecting for you. It uses the HTTP +response status code ``301 Moved Permanently`` by default. Installation ============ @@ -34,7 +35,12 @@ given ``old_path`` with a site ID that corresponds to the :setting:`SITE_ID` setting. * If it finds a match, and ``new_path`` is not empty, it redirects to - ``new_path``. + ``new_path`` using a 301 ("Moved Permanently") redirect. You can subclass + :class:`~django.contrib.redirects.middleware.RedirectFallbackMiddleware` + and set + :attr:`~django.contrib.redirects.middleware.RedirectFallbackMiddleware.response_redirect_class` + to :class:`django.http.HttpResponseRedirect` to use a + ``302 Moved Temporarily`` redirect instead. * If it finds a match, and ``new_path`` is empty, it sends a 410 ("Gone") HTTP header and empty (content-less) response. * If it doesn't find a match, the request continues to be processed as |