Commit 04ff1aff authored by Malcolm Tredinnick's avatar Malcolm Tredinnick
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Fixed #9712 -- Documented how HTTP headers are converted to request.META keys. 

Based on a patch from masklinn.


git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@9579 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
parent 84cc0084

docs/ref/request-response.txt

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@@ -142,6 +142,13 @@ All attributes except ``session`` should be considered read-only. 
        * ``SERVER_NAME`` -- The hostname of the server.

        * ``SERVER_PORT`` -- The port of the server.



    With the exception of ``CONTENT_LENGTH`` and ``CONTENT_TYPE``, as given

    above, any HTTP headers in the request are converted to ``META`` keys by

    converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with

    underscores and adding an ``HTTP_`` prefix to the name. So, for example, a

    header called ``X-Bender`` would be mapped to the ``META`` key

    ``HTTP_X_BENDER``.



.. attribute:: HttpRequest.user



    A ``django.contrib.auth.models.User`` object representing the currently