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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/request-response.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/request-response.txt b/docs/ref/request-response.txt index a29ddc63cc..551ee00c6b 100644 --- a/docs/ref/request-response.txt +++ b/docs/ref/request-response.txt @@ -606,11 +606,10 @@ Attributes Methods ------- -.. method:: HttpResponse.__init__(content='', mimetype=None, status=200, content_type=DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE) +.. method:: HttpResponse.__init__(content='', content_type=None, status=200) - Instantiates an ``HttpResponse`` object with the given page content (a - string) and MIME type. The :setting:`DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE` is - ``'text/html'``. + Instantiates an ``HttpResponse`` object with the given page content and + content type. ``content`` should be an iterator or a string. If it's an iterator, it should return strings, and those strings will be @@ -618,15 +617,15 @@ Methods an iterator or a string, it will be converted to a string when accessed. + ``content_type`` is the MIME type optionally completed by a character set + encoding and is used to fill the HTTP ``Content-Type`` header. If not + specified, it is formed by the :setting:`DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE` and + :setting:`DEFAULT_CHARSET` settings, by default: "`text/html; charset=utf-8`". + + Historically, this parameter was called ``mimetype`` (now deprecated). + ``status`` is the `HTTP Status code`_ for the response. - ``content_type`` is an alias for ``mimetype``. Historically, this parameter - was only called ``mimetype``, but since this is actually the value included - in the HTTP ``Content-Type`` header, it can also include the character set - encoding, which makes it more than just a MIME type specification. - If ``mimetype`` is specified (not ``None``), that value is used. - Otherwise, ``content_type`` is used. If neither is given, the - :setting:`DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE` setting is used. .. method:: HttpResponse.__setitem__(header, value) |