No override needed in notifications.py
The only downside is that the ?s=0 parameter will still be appended
but is not handled in list(). The right solution would be to update
list() so that it does say "Message Sent" or such, to give the user
an indication that their message was sent succesfully.
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