Commit 549faf19 authored by Malcolm Tredinnick's avatar Malcolm Tredinnick
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Improved documentation around HTTP server meta variables. 

Fixed #16581, with thanks to Bernhard Essl.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@16644 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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docs/ref/request-response.txt

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@@ -125,10 +125,10 @@ All attributes except ``session`` should be considered read-only. 
    Available headers depend on the client and server, but here are some

    examples:



        * ``CONTENT_LENGTH``

        * ``CONTENT_TYPE``

        * ``HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING``

        * ``HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE``

        * ``CONTENT_LENGTH`` -- the length of the request body (as a string).

        * ``CONTENT_TYPE`` -- the MIME type of the request body.

        * ``HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING`` -- Acceptable encodings for the response.

        * ``HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE`` -- Acceptable languages for the response.

        * ``HTTP_HOST`` -- The HTTP Host header sent by the client.

        * ``HTTP_REFERER`` -- The referring page, if any.

        * ``HTTP_USER_AGENT`` -- The client's user-agent string.
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ All attributes except ``session`` should be considered read-only. 
        * ``REMOTE_USER`` -- The user authenticated by the Web server, if any.

        * ``REQUEST_METHOD`` -- A string such as ``"GET"`` or ``"POST"``.

        * ``SERVER_NAME`` -- The hostname of the server.

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

        * ``SERVER_PORT`` -- The port of the server (as a string).



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

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