app/django/middleware/gzip.py
author Pawel Solyga <Pawel.Solyga@gmail.com>
Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:11:38 +0000
changeset 2051 cecbef1289a5
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
Make the mentor and organization admin comment submission on student proposal nicer. Now drop down box allows you to select comment type and based on selected type and your current Role shows you available comment options. Left TODO to put inline JS into separate JS file. Patch by: Tim Ansell (small fixes by Pawel Solyga) Reviewed by: Pawel Solyga

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