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authorMaxime Lorant <maxime.lorant@gmail.com>2015-08-23 20:54:15 +0200
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2015-08-24 19:35:49 -0400
commit4ce433e811763f29c32e0553fe1e0070fd14c6a2 (patch)
tree21bf711c2c7f5fe80479dd7edb4e3c52bd1a142f /docs/howto/error-reporting.txt
parentd3fdaf907db6a5be4d0391532d7e65688c19e851 (diff)
Fixed #25302 -- Prevented BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware from reporting 404s when Referer = URL.
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@@ -61,8 +61,15 @@ not found" errors). Django sends emails about 404 errors when:
If those conditions are met, Django will email the users listed in the
:setting:`MANAGERS` setting whenever your code raises a 404 and the request has
-a referer. (It doesn't bother to email for 404s that don't have a referer --
-those are usually just people typing in broken URLs or broken Web 'bots).
+a referer. It doesn't bother to email for 404s that don't have a referer --
+those are usually just people typing in broken URLs or broken Web bots. It also
+ignores 404s when the referer is equal to the requested URL, since this
+behavior is from broken Web bots too.
+
+.. versionchanged:: 1.9
+
+ In older versions, 404s were not ignored when the referer was equal to the
+ requested URL.
.. note::