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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/cache.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/cache.txt b/docs/topics/cache.txt index 5797199411..f2b7a594d3 100644 --- a/docs/topics/cache.txt +++ b/docs/topics/cache.txt @@ -328,7 +328,9 @@ parameters. Optionally, if the ``CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ANONYMOUS_ONLY`` setting is will be cached. This is a simple and effective way of disabling caching for any user-specific pages (include Django's admin interface). Note that if you use ``CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ANONYMOUS_ONLY``, you should make sure you've activated -``AuthenticationMiddleware``. +``AuthenticationMiddleware``. The cache middleware expects that a HEAD request +is answered with the same response headers exactly like the corresponding GET +request, in that case it could return cached GET response for HEAD request. Additionally, the cache middleware automatically sets a few headers in each ``HttpResponse``: |