Fixed #7535 -- Correctly set Content-Encoding header in static files serving view. Thanks for the report and patch, Kevin Hunter.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@13868 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

django/views/static.py

@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ def serve(request, path, document_root=None, show_indexes=False):
         raise Http404('"%s" does not exist' % fullpath)
     # Respect the If-Modified-Since header.
     statobj = os.stat(fullpath)
-    mimetype = mimetypes.guess_type(fullpath)[0] or 'application/octet-stream'
+    mimetype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(fullpath)
+    mimetype = mimetype or 'application/octet-stream'
     if not was_modified_since(request.META.get('HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE'),
                               statobj[stat.ST_MTIME], statobj[stat.ST_SIZE]):
         return HttpResponseNotModified(mimetype=mimetype)
@@ -64,6 +65,8 @@ def serve(request, path, document_root=None, show_indexes=False):
     response = HttpResponse(contents, mimetype=mimetype)
     response["Last-Modified"] = http_date(statobj[stat.ST_MTIME])
     response["Content-Length"] = len(contents)
+    if encoding:
+        response["Content-Encoding"] = encoding
     return response
 
 DEFAULT_DIRECTORY_INDEX_TEMPLATE = """

tests/regressiontests/views/tests/static.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import mimetypes
 from os import path
 
 from django.test import TestCase
@@ -8,12 +9,13 @@ class StaticTests(TestCase):
 
     def test_serve(self):
         "The static view can serve static media"
-        media_files = ['file.txt',]
+        media_files = ['file.txt', 'file.txt.gz']
         for filename in media_files:
             response = self.client.get('/views/site_media/%s' % filename)
-            file = open(path.join(media_dir, filename))
-            self.assertEquals(file.read(), response.content)
+            file_path = path.join(media_dir, filename)
+            self.assertEquals(open(file_path).read(), response.content)
             self.assertEquals(len(response.content), int(response['Content-Length']))
+            self.assertEquals(mimetypes.guess_type(file_path)[1], response.get('Content-Encoding', None))
 
     def test_unknown_mime_type(self):
         response = self.client.get('/views/site_media/file.unknown')