Commit ba0734af authored by Karen Tracey's avatar Karen Tracey
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Fix #17119: Update cache doc to match current implementation, which does... 

Fix #17119: Update cache doc to match current implementation, which does (since r15705) cache pages with GET parameters. Thanks Vanni, poirier, and calvinspealman.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@17090 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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docs/topics/cache.txt

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@@ -456,8 +456,10 @@ Then, add the following required settings to your Django settings file: 
  the site, or some other string that is unique to this Django instance, to

  prevent key collisions. Use an empty string if you don't care.



The cache middleware caches every page that doesn't have GET or POST

parameters. Optionally, if the :setting:`CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ANONYMOUS_ONLY`

The cache middleware caches GET and HEAD responses with status 200, where the request

and response headers allow. Responses to requests for the same URL with different

query parameters are considered to be unique pages and are cached separately.

Optionally, if the :setting:`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 (including Django's admin interface). Note