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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2016-10-14 08:02:19 -0400
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2016-10-14 12:48:03 -0400
commit61f9243e5138b79f2671936b4f55941cd02da89e (patch)
tree312e84319d474b50f89454421992296d3777ad27 /docs
parentb679a3cdb119b375f32c3d89b967f9cf6e7fa2f5 (diff)
Fixed #27345 -- Stopped setting the Date header in ConditionalGetMiddleware.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/ref/middleware.txt5
-rw-r--r--docs/releases/1.11.txt3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/middleware.txt b/docs/ref/middleware.txt
index d007d252f5..71e888e928 100644
--- a/docs/ref/middleware.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/middleware.txt
@@ -181,11 +181,12 @@ header, the middleware adds one if needed. If the response has a ``ETag`` or
``If-Modified-Since``, the response is replaced by an
:class:`~django.http.HttpResponseNotModified`.
-Also sets the ``Date`` and ``Content-Length`` response-headers.
+Also sets ``Content-Length`` response-header.
.. versionchanged:: 1.11
- In older versions, the middleware didn't set the ``ETag`` header.
+ In older versions, the middleware set the ``Date`` header and didn't set
+ the ``ETag`` header.
Locale middleware
-----------------
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.11.txt b/docs/releases/1.11.txt
index 3be654eff5..a83bace8b6 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.11.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.11.txt
@@ -559,6 +559,9 @@ Miscellaneous
* In the admin templates, ``<p class="help">`` is replaced with a ``<div>`` tag
to allow including lists inside help text.
+* ``ConditionalGetMiddleware`` no longer sets the ``Date`` header as Web
+ servers set that header.
+
.. _deprecated-features-1.11:
Features deprecated in 1.11