Make it possible to put the site in maintenance mode
By specifying the UTC date from which the maintenance shoulds start,
developers can put the site in 'maintenance' mode.
Also redirect to /maintenance if we get a CapabilityDisabledError.
Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier
import re
from django.utils.text import compress_string
from django.utils.cache import patch_vary_headers
re_accepts_gzip = re.compile(r'\bgzip\b')
class GZipMiddleware(object):
"""
This middleware compresses content if the browser allows gzip compression.
It sets the Vary header accordingly, so that caches will base their storage
on the Accept-Encoding header.
"""
def process_response(self, request, response):
# It's not worth compressing non-OK or really short responses.
if response.status_code != 200 or len(response.content) < 200:
return response
patch_vary_headers(response, ('Accept-Encoding',))
# Avoid gzipping if we've already got a content-encoding.
if response.has_header('Content-Encoding'):
return response
# Older versions of IE have issues with gzipped pages containing either
# Javascript and PDF.
if "msie" in request.META.get('HTTP_USER_AGENT', '').lower():
ctype = response.get('Content-Type', '').lower()
if "javascript" in ctype or ctype == "application/pdf":
return response
ae = request.META.get('HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING', '')
if not re_accepts_gzip.search(ae):
return response
response.content = compress_string(response.content)
response['Content-Encoding'] = 'gzip'
response['Content-Length'] = str(len(response.content))
return response