diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/middleware.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/middleware.txt b/docs/middleware.txt index 533f1ccede..63ba8c6999 100644 --- a/docs/middleware.txt +++ b/docs/middleware.txt @@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ django.middleware.gzip.GZipMiddleware Compresses content for browsers that understand gzip compression (all modern browsers). +It is suggested to place this first in the middleware list, so that the +compression of the response content is the last thing that happens. Will not +compress content bodies less than 200 bytes long, when the response code is +something other than 200, Javascript files (for IE compatibitility), or +responses that have the ``Content-Encoding`` header already specified. + django.middleware.http.ConditionalGetMiddleware ----------------------------------------------- |