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| author | James Bennett <ubernostrum@gmail.com> | 2010-03-03 08:52:51 +0000 |
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| committer | James Bennett <ubernostrum@gmail.com> | 2010-03-03 08:52:51 +0000 |
| commit | 36e7739d9d08cd83c9cc6be56ea33443ac26b484 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d14a40fb5b45684296a819144600eda45ad5296 /docs/ref | |
| parent | 7adae3028656cb8ea6c2c2c30a7bc747f7e26796 (diff) | |
[1.1.X] Fixed #12217: Documented the fact that serving flatpages from the flatpage middleware does not apply view middleware methods. Backport of [12671] from trunk.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.1.X@12672 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/contrib/flatpages.txt | 8 |
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diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/flatpages.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/flatpages.txt index 7c65e0a30b..bca1c7a9c1 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/flatpages.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/flatpages.txt @@ -80,6 +80,14 @@ If it doesn't find a match, the request continues to be processed as usual. The middleware only gets activated for 404s -- not for 500s or responses of any other status code. +.. admonition:: Flatpages will not apply view middleware + + Because the ``FlatpageFallbackMiddleware`` is applied only after + URL resolution has failed and produced a 404, the response it + returns will not apply any :ref:`view middleware <view-middlware>` + methods. Only requests which are successfully routed to a view via + normal URL resolution apply view middleware. + Note that the order of :setting:`MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES` matters. Generally, you can put :class:`~django.contrib.flatpages.middleware.FlatpageFallbackMiddleware` at the end of the list, because it's a last resort. |