djstopie

Why?

Because, at some point you may need to drop an old version of IE.

Features

• Redirects unsupported IE browsers to a custom error page

Installation and configuration

djstopie requires an integer of the LAST_SUPPORTED_BROWSER to be configured in the projects settings.py file. In addition it also requires an UNSUPPORTED_URL to be configured; this url is used to redirect the user to a custom error page.

Here is an example of a configured setting.py file:

UNSUPPORTED_URL = '/unsupported-browser'

LAST_SUPPORTED_BROWSER = 9

The last step is setting up the middleware itself.

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    ...
    'djstopie.middleware.UnsupportedBrowsersMiddleware'
)

djstopie accepts a LANGUAGE_PREFIX. This will prefix redirected urls, either by a function from a given module.

djstopie can also be configured to skip over urls with a given prefix. This can be configured by assigning a tuple of prefixes to the WHITELISTED_URL_PATHS variable in the settings.py file.