From df09d854828bcff56eb72f48ff1ba8fce7e90c90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aymeric Augustin Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 21:24:05 +0200 Subject: Fixed #17552 -- Removed a hack for IE6 and earlier. It prevented the GZipMiddleware from compressing some data types even on more recent version of IE where the corresponding bug was fixed. Thanks Aaron Cannon for the report and Tim Graham for the review. --- docs/ref/middleware.txt | 5 ----- docs/releases/1.8.txt | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') 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. -- cgit v1.3