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authorJannis Leidel <jannis@leidel.info>2011-03-02 12:47:36 +0000
committerJannis Leidel <jannis@leidel.info>2011-03-02 12:47:36 +0000
commitf6c991667f6f1ab8d2fd2afc1ee2b5801e78b7e3 (patch)
tree0fcdcbff97c5fe84098321b9af11b0568a9a6661 /docs
parenta9ace1466d0a57a020fd1318378df474352ba27a (diff)
Fixed #4992 -- Respect the GET request query string when creating cache keys. Thanks PeterKz and guettli for the initial patch.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@15705 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/releases/1.3.txt3
-rw-r--r--docs/topics/cache.txt8
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.3.txt b/docs/releases/1.3.txt
index 29e4fd46f5..66f78ba0c4 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.3.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.3.txt
@@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ Secondly, :ref:`Versioning <cache_versioning>`, :ref:`site-wide
prefixing <cache_key_prefixing>` and :ref:`transformation
<cache_key_transformation>` has been added to the cache API.
+Thirdly, the :ref:`cache key creation <using-vary-headers>` has been
+updated to take the GET request query string into account.
+
Lastly, support for pylibmc_ has been added to the memcached cache
backend.
diff --git a/docs/topics/cache.txt b/docs/topics/cache.txt
index 5acd53eeb8..4eb9d21536 100644
--- a/docs/topics/cache.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/cache.txt
@@ -962,9 +962,13 @@ mechanism should take into account when building its cache key. For example, if
the contents of a Web page depend on a user's language preference, the page is
said to "vary on language."
+.. versionchanged:: 1.3
+ In Django 1.3 the full request path -- including the query -- is used
+ to create the cache keys, instead of only the path component in Django 1.2.
+
By default, Django's cache system creates its cache keys using the requested
-path (e.g., ``"/stories/2005/jun/23/bank_robbed/"``). This means every request
-to that URL will use the same cached version, regardless of user-agent
+path and query -- e.g., ``"/stories/2005/?order_by=author"``. This means every
+request to that URL will use the same cached version, regardless of user-agent
differences such as cookies or language preferences. However, if this page
produces different content based on some difference in request headers -- such
as a cookie, or a language, or a user-agent -- you'll need to use the ``Vary``