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-rw-r--r--docs/topics/http/urls.txt3
-rw-r--r--docs/topics/http/views.txt2
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diff --git a/docs/topics/http/urls.txt b/docs/topics/http/urls.txt
index d176bbafae..631e0ebe48 100644
--- a/docs/topics/http/urls.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/http/urls.txt
@@ -834,6 +834,9 @@ URL paths to the corresponding view functions. It has the following signature:
don't need to worry about the ``urlconf`` parameter. The function returns the
triple (view function, arguments, keyword arguments).
+If the URL does not resolve, the function raises an
+:class:`~django.http.Http404` exception.
+
For example, it can be used for testing if a view would raise a ``Http404``
error before redirecting to it::
diff --git a/docs/topics/http/views.txt b/docs/topics/http/views.txt
index 399e6b6ad1..3ff11da1e9 100644
--- a/docs/topics/http/views.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/http/views.txt
@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ to handle those errors.
The Http404 exception
---------------------
+.. class:: django.http.Http404()
+
When you return an error such as ``HttpResponseNotFound``, you're responsible
for defining the HTML of the resulting error page::