HTML 5 Firefox 2 Hack

class HTML5Firefox2Hack(object):
	"""This is a hack to get HTML 5 to work for Firefox 2. It Sends the xhtml
	content-type to all Gecko based browsers where version is less than 1.9,
	or "rv:1.9pre" or "rv:1.9a" or "rv:1.9bx" where x is less than 5. I
	created this hack based on the information I found on this site,
	http://html5doctor.com/how-to-get-html5-working-in-ie-and-firefox-2/."""
	
	def process_response(self, request, response):
		
		status_code = getattr(response, "status_code", None)
		meta        = getattr(request, "META", None)
		user_agent  = meta.get('HTTP_USER_AGENT', '')
		
		
		import re
		m = re.search('rv:1\.(([1-8]|9pre|9a|9b[0-4])\.[0-9.]+).*Gecko', user_agent)
		if m:
			
			import htmlentitydefs
			
			response['Content-Type']='application/xhtml+xml;  charset=utf-8'
			for i in htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint.items():
				response.content = response.content.replace('&%s;' % i[0], '&#%s;' % i[1])
		
		return response