From a0578a1a1c5e200fe45cf5902b295f4e92f87c75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Claude Paroz Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 17:39:36 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [1.5.x] Fixed #19444 -- Clarified IGNORABLE_404_URLS documentation Backport of 53b879f045 from master. --- docs/ref/settings.txt | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt index 4a2147fa4c..b17f88ab4a 100644 --- a/docs/ref/settings.txt +++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt @@ -1119,9 +1119,11 @@ Default: ``()`` List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see -:doc:`/howto/error-reporting`). Use this if your site does not provide a -commonly requested file such as ``favicon.ico`` or ``robots.txt``, or if it -gets hammered by script kiddies. +:doc:`/howto/error-reporting`). Regular expressions are matched against +:meth:`request's full paths ` (including +query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly +requested file such as ``favicon.ico`` or ``robots.txt``, or if it gets +hammered by script kiddies. This is only used if :setting:`SEND_BROKEN_LINK_EMAILS` is set to ``True`` and ``CommonMiddleware`` is installed (see :doc:`/topics/http/middleware`).