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| author | Claude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net> | 2012-12-07 17:39:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Claude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net> | 2012-12-07 17:42:17 +0100 |
| commit | a0578a1a1c5e200fe45cf5902b295f4e92f87c75 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a07f8f9b43bc65867c6dd1edb96fb7c452ecf4f /docs/ref | |
| parent | 67bddc0b7b6468abe875f30e4b70560787b5eb5b (diff) | |
[1.5.x] Fixed #19444 -- Clarified IGNORABLE_404_URLS documentation
Backport of 53b879f045 from master.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/ref')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/settings.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt index 4a2147fa4c..b17f88ab4a 100644 --- a/docs/ref/settings.txt +++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt @@ -1119,9 +1119,11 @@ Default: ``()`` List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see -:doc:`/howto/error-reporting`). Use this if your site does not provide a -commonly requested file such as ``favicon.ico`` or ``robots.txt``, or if it -gets hammered by script kiddies. +:doc:`/howto/error-reporting`). Regular expressions are matched against +:meth:`request's full paths <django.http.HttpRequest.get_full_path>` (including +query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly +requested file such as ``favicon.ico`` or ``robots.txt``, or if it gets +hammered by script kiddies. This is only used if :setting:`SEND_BROKEN_LINK_EMAILS` is set to ``True`` and ``CommonMiddleware`` is installed (see :doc:`/topics/http/middleware`). |