import datetime class ConditionalGetMiddleware: """ Handles conditional GET operations. If the response has a ETag or Last-Modified header, and the request has If-None-Match or If-Modified-Since, the response is replaced by an HttpNotModified. Removes the content from any response to a HEAD request. Also sets the Date and Content-Length response-headers. """ def process_response(self, request, response): now = datetime.datetime.utcnow() response['Date'] = now.strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT') if not response.has_header('Content-Length'): response['Content-Length'] = str(len(response.content)) if response.has_header('ETag'): if_none_match = request.META.get('HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH', None) if if_none_match == response['ETag']: response.status_code = 304 response.content = '' response['Content-Length'] = '0' if response.has_header('Last-Modified'): last_mod = response['Last-Modified'] if_modified_since = request.META.get('HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE', None) if if_modified_since == response['Last-Modified']: response.status_code = 304 response.content = '' response['Content-Length'] = '0' if request.META['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'HEAD': response.content = '' return response