app/django/middleware/gzip.py
author Pawel Solyga <Pawel.Solyga@gmail.com>
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:00:55 +0000
changeset 848 07fd6a603c24
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
Disable R0801 messages in pylintrc. R0801 messages indicates that a set of similar lines has been detected among multiple file. This usually means that the code should be refactored to avoid this duplication but in our case it's useless since it shows a lot of imports code or authors. Patch by: Pawel Solyga Review by: to-be-reviewed

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