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authorClaude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net>2019-08-02 17:16:01 +0200
committerMariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com>2019-08-18 13:17:49 +0200
commit04681597634a0c803246fe68b3bcb64f81e7305c (patch)
tree62cd12dd28ae7880b158c5ad104863d41b4c9013 /docs
parent8b4a43dda702fe72c254388f1be2c0c75b7a3efc (diff)
Refs #30426 -- Changed default SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF to True.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/ref/settings.txt6
-rw-r--r--docs/releases/3.0.txt6
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt
index 1c845b0df1..f1d60d257b 100644
--- a/docs/ref/settings.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt
@@ -2191,12 +2191,16 @@ header if you support older browsers.
``SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF``
-------------------------------
-Default: ``False``
+Default: ``True``
If ``True``, the :class:`~django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware`
sets the :ref:`x-content-type-options` header on all responses that do not
already have it.
+.. versionchanged:: 3.0
+
+ In older versions, the default value is ``False``.
+
.. setting:: SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS
``SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS``
diff --git a/docs/releases/3.0.txt b/docs/releases/3.0.txt
index bc9cbe3751..b6b3368337 100644
--- a/docs/releases/3.0.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/3.0.txt
@@ -519,6 +519,12 @@ Miscellaneous
field names contains an asterisk, then the ``Vary`` header will consist of a
single asterisk ``'*'``.
+* :setting:`SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF` setting now defaults to ``True``. With
+ the enabled :setting:`SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF`, the
+ :class:`~django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware` sets the
+ :ref:`x-content-type-options` header on all responses that do not already
+ have it.
+
.. _deprecated-features-3.0:
Features deprecated in 3.0