Add support for StreamingHttpResponse. Closes #939

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/compat.py b/rest_framework/compat.py
index 76dc0052..a19bd778 100644
--- a/rest_framework/compat.py
+++ b/rest_framework/compat.py
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ except ImportError:
     from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode as force_text
 
 
+# HttpResponseBase only exists from 1.5 onwards
+try:
+    from django.http.response import HttpResponseBase
+except ImportError:
+    from django.http import HttpResponse as HttpResponseBase
+
 # django-filter is optional
 try:
     import django_filters