Fixed #21177 -- Made resolve_url support relative URLs.

This fixes redirecting to relative URLs with django.shortcuts.redirect.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/docs/releases/1.7.txt b/docs/releases/1.7.txt
index 7359e09ac1..1fe657dfc5 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.7.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.7.txt
@@ -677,6 +677,9 @@ Requests
 * The new :attr:`HttpRequest.scheme <django.http.HttpRequest.scheme>` attribute
   specifies the scheme of the request (``http`` or ``https`` normally).
 
+* The shortcut :func:`redirect() <django.shortcuts.redirect>` now supports
+  relative URLs.
+
 Tests
 ^^^^^
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt b/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt
index c4f413e28c..454aba0ed0 100644
--- a/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt
@@ -203,10 +203,15 @@ If you want to override the :setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS` setting, use the
      <django.core.urlresolvers.reverse>` will be used to reverse-resolve the
      name.
 
-   * A URL, which will be used as-is for the redirect location.
+   * An absolute or relative URL, which will be used as-is for the redirect
+     location.
 
    By default issues a temporary redirect; pass ``permanent=True`` to issue a
-   permanent redirect
+   permanent redirect.
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 1.7
+
+       The ability to use relative URLs was added.
 
 Examples
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