From d4a2fbb6a2f43a9eb9a9fc66c738a031f655c914 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Holovaty Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:33:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added note to docs/cache.txt about CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ANONYMOUS_ONLY=True and ordering AuthenticationMiddleware. Refs #2541. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@3604 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/cache.txt | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/cache.txt b/docs/cache.txt index 62fec289b9..1795345ed9 100644 --- a/docs/cache.txt +++ b/docs/cache.txt @@ -233,7 +233,10 @@ The cache middleware caches every page that doesn't have GET or POST parameters. Optionally, if the ``CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ANONYMOUS_ONLY`` setting is ``True``, only anonymous requests (i.e., not those made by a logged-in user) will be cached. This is a simple and effective way of disabling caching for any -user-specific pages (include Django's admin interface). +user-specific pages (include Django's admin interface). Note that if you use +``CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ANONYMOUS_ONLY``, you should make sure you've activated +``AuthenticationMiddleware`` and that ``AuthenticationMiddleware`` appears +before ``CacheMiddleware`` in your ``MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES``. Additionally, ``CacheMiddleware`` automatically sets a few headers in each ``HttpResponse``: