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@@ -155,6 +155,9 @@ It will NOT compress content if any of the following are true:
* The request (the browser) hasn't sent an ``Accept-Encoding`` header
containing ``gzip``.
+If the response has an ``ETag`` header, the ETag is made weak to comply with
+:rfc:`7232#section-2.1`.
+
You can apply GZip compression to individual views using the
:func:`~django.views.decorators.gzip.gzip_page()` decorator.