Commit 35869c53 authored by Malcolm Tredinnick's avatar Malcolm Tredinnick
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Documented that CommonMiddleware will not append a slash to URLs containing a 

period in the last component.


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docs/middleware.txt

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* Performs URL rewriting based on the ``APPEND_SLASH`` and ``PREPEND_WWW``

  settings. If ``APPEND_SLASH`` is ``True``, URLs that lack a trailing

  slash will be redirected to the same URL with a trailing slash. If

  ``PREPEND_WWW`` is ``True``, URLs that lack a leading "www." will be

  slash will be redirected to the same URL with a trailing slash, unless the

  last component in the path contains a period. So ``foo.com/bar`` is

  redirected to ``foo.com/bar/``, but ``foo.com/bar/file.txt`` is passed

  through unchanged.

  

  If ``PREPEND_WWW`` is ``True``, URLs that lack a leading "www." will be

  redirected to the same URL with a leading "www."



  Both of these options are meant to normalize URLs. The philosophy is that