Commit a0578a1a authored by Claude Paroz's avatar Claude Paroz
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[1.5.x] Fixed #19444 -- Clarified IGNORABLE_404_URLS documentation

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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 <django.http.HttpRequest.get_full_path>` (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`).