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authorMalcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com>2007-10-21 12:12:45 +0000
committerMalcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com>2007-10-21 12:12:45 +0000
commit4c3586582d37b7badfafab0deb630f114d0dd449 (patch)
tree35f3204e32e6801768d78ccfc5cafa9015713292 /docs
parentdf644cbab9d1874903bceb853f08da7a9ec56a7a (diff)
Fixed #4493 -- Noted that the LocaleMiddleware's placement w.r.t
CacheMiddleware is important. Thanks, SmileyChris. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@6575 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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-rw-r--r--docs/cache.txt11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cache.txt b/docs/cache.txt
index 6fe0a22ae7..20c59bfe97 100644
--- a/docs/cache.txt
+++ b/docs/cache.txt
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ entire site. Just add ``'django.middleware.cache.CacheMiddleware'`` to your
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
)
-(The order of ``MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES`` matters. See "Order of MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES"
+(The order of ``MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES`` matters. See `Order of MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES`_
below.)
Then, add the following required settings to your Django settings file:
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ the value of the ``CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SETTINGS`` setting. If you use a custom
``max_age`` in a ``cache_control`` decorator, the decorator will take
precedence, and the header values will be merged correctly.)
-If you want to use headers to disable caching altogether,
+If you want to use headers to disable caching altogether,
``django.views.decorators.never_cache`` is a view decorator that adds
headers to ensure the response won't be cached by browsers or other caches. Example::
@@ -565,8 +565,11 @@ within the ``MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES`` setting, because the cache middleware needs
to know which headers by which to vary the cache storage. Middleware always
adds something to the ``Vary`` response header when it can.
-Put the ``CacheMiddleware`` after any middlewares that might add something to
-the ``Vary`` header. The following middlewares do so:
+Put the ``CacheMiddleware`` *before* any other middleware that might add
+something to the ``Vary`` header (response middleware is applied in reverse
+order). The following middleware modules do so:
* ``SessionMiddleware`` adds ``Cookie``
* ``GZipMiddleware`` adds ``Accept-Encoding``
+ * ``LocaleMiddleware`` adds ``Accept-Language``
+