From 551c86c43a71f7dee5cce68c5142714301f6196f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Christie
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 22:43:07 +0100
Subject: Documentation for parsers

---
 docs/api-guide/requests.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

(limited to 'docs/api-guide/requests.md')

diff --git a/docs/api-guide/requests.md b/docs/api-guide/requests.md
index 91563e3b..23d84a53 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/requests.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/requests.md
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ You won't typically need to access this property.
 
 **Note:** If a client sends malformed content, then accessing `request.DATA` or `request.FILES` may raise a `ParseError`.  By default REST framework's `APIView` class or `@api_view` decorator will catch the error and return a `400 Bad Request` response.
 
+If a client sends a request with a content-type that cannot be parsed then a `UnsupportedMediaType` exception will be raised, which by default will be caught and return a `415 Unsupported Media Type` response.
+
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 # Authentication
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