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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/middleware.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.8.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/middleware.txt b/docs/ref/middleware.txt index d5958dfebd..7b7b76b567 100644 --- a/docs/ref/middleware.txt +++ b/docs/ref/middleware.txt @@ -108,11 +108,6 @@ 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``. -* The request is from Internet Explorer and the ``Content-Type`` header - contains ``javascript`` or starts with anything other than ``text/``. - We do this to avoid a bug in early versions of IE that caused decompression - not to be performed on certain content types. - You can apply GZip compression to individual views using the :func:`~django.views.decorators.gzip.gzip_page()` decorator. diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.txt index 774d94d94d..26b9d37a88 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.8.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.8.txt @@ -273,6 +273,11 @@ Miscellaneous * Database connections are considered equal only if they're the same object. They aren't hashable any more. +* :class:`~django.middleware.gzip.GZipMiddleware` used to disable compression + for some content types when the request is from Internet Explorer, in order + to work around a bug in IE6 and earlier. This behavior could affect + performance on IE7 and later. It was removed. + * ``URLField.to_python`` no longer adds a trailing slash to pathless URLs. * ``django.contrib.gis`` dropped support for GEOS 3.1 and GDAL 1.6. |