Patch to enable Accept headers in Internet Explorer when an Ajax Library on the client (i.e. jQuery) is sending an XMLHttpRequest

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Adam Ness 2012-07-02 20:32:42 -07:00
parent 11147ce13e
commit 73be041c47
2 changed files with 12 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -274,7 +274,8 @@ class ResponseMixin(object):
accept_list = [request.GET.get(self._ACCEPT_QUERY_PARAM)]
elif (self._IGNORE_IE_ACCEPT_HEADER and
'HTTP_USER_AGENT' in request.META and
MSIE_USER_AGENT_REGEX.match(request.META['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])):
MSIE_USER_AGENT_REGEX.match(request.META['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) and
request.META.get('HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH', '') != 'XMLHttpRequest'):
# Ignore MSIE's broken accept behavior and do something sensible instead
accept_list = ['text/html', '*/*']
elif 'HTTP_ACCEPT' in request.META:

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@ -50,6 +50,16 @@ class UserAgentMungingTest(TestCase):
resp = self.view(req)
self.assertEqual(resp['Content-Type'], 'text/html')
def test_dont_munge_msie_with_x_requested_with_header(self):
"""Send MSIE user agent strings, and an X-Requested-With header, and
ensure that we get a JSON response if we set a */* Accept header."""
for user_agent in (MSIE_9_USER_AGENT,
MSIE_8_USER_AGENT,
MSIE_7_USER_AGENT):
req = self.req.get('/', HTTP_ACCEPT='*/*', HTTP_USER_AGENT=user_agent, HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH='XMLHttpRequest')
resp = self.view(req)
self.assertEqual(resp['Content-Type'], 'application/json')
def test_dont_rewrite_msie_accept_header(self):
"""Turn off _IGNORE_IE_ACCEPT_HEADER, send MSIE user agent strings and ensure
that we get a JSON response if we set a */* accept header."""