diff --git a/docs/topics/architecture.rst b/docs/topics/architecture.rst
index 91c80acc0..ea0cb0ea7 100644
--- a/docs/topics/architecture.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/architecture.rst
@@ -41,25 +41,26 @@ this:
 
 4. The :ref:`Engine <component-engine>` sends the Requests to the
    :ref:`Downloader <component-downloader>`, passing through the
-   :ref:`Downloader Middleware <component-downloader-middleware>`
-   (requests direction).
+   :ref:`Downloader Middlewares <component-downloader-middleware>` (see
+   :meth:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.DownloaderMiddleware.process_request`).
 
 5. Once the page finishes downloading the
    :ref:`Downloader <component-downloader>` generates a Response (with
    that page) and sends it to the Engine, passing through the
-   :ref:`Downloader Middleware <component-downloader-middleware>`
-   (response direction).
+   :ref:`Downloader Middlewares <component-downloader-middleware>` (see
+   :meth:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.DownloaderMiddleware.process_response`).
 
 6. The :ref:`Engine <component-engine>` receives the Response from the
    :ref:`Downloader <component-downloader>` and sends it to the
    :ref:`Spider <component-spiders>` for processing, passing
-   through the :ref:`Spider Middleware <component-spider-middleware>`
-   (input direction).
+   through the :ref:`Spider Middleware <component-spider-middleware>` (see
+   :meth:`~scrapy.spidermiddlewares.SpiderMiddleware.process_spider_input`).
 
 7. The :ref:`Spider <component-spiders>` processes the Response and returns
    scraped items and new Requests (to follow) to the
    :ref:`Engine <component-engine>`, passing through the
-   :ref:`Spider Middleware <component-spider-middleware>` (output direction).
+   :ref:`Spider Middleware <component-spider-middleware>` (see
+   :meth:`~scrapy.spidermiddlewares.SpiderMiddleware.process_spider_output`).
 
 8. The :ref:`Engine <component-engine>` sends processed items to
    :ref:`Item Pipelines <component-pipelines>`, then send processed Requests to
diff --git a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
index 31545d548..15069e56e 100644
--- a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
@@ -27,7 +27,11 @@ The :setting:`DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES` setting is merged with the
 :setting:`DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES_BASE` setting defined in Scrapy (and not meant
 to be overridden) and then sorted by order to get the final sorted list of
 enabled middlewares: the first middleware is the one closer to the engine and
-the last is the one closer to the downloader.
+the last is the one closer to the downloader. In other words,
+the :meth:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.DownloaderMiddleware.process_request`
+method of each middleware will be invoked in increasing
+middleware order (100, 200, 300, ...) and the :meth:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.DownloaderMiddleware.process_response` method
+of each middleware will be invoked in decreasing order.
 
 To decide which order to assign to your middleware see the
 :setting:`DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES_BASE` setting and pick a value according to
diff --git a/docs/topics/item-pipeline.rst b/docs/topics/item-pipeline.rst
index 6b43fe258..8c7aa361f 100644
--- a/docs/topics/item-pipeline.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/item-pipeline.rst
@@ -106,9 +106,12 @@ format::
 
    class JsonWriterPipeline(object):
 
-       def __init__(self):
+       def open_spider(self, spider):
            self.file = open('items.jl', 'wb')
 
+       def close_spider(self, spider):
+           self.file.close()
+
        def process_item(self, item, spider):
            line = json.dumps(dict(item)) + "\n"
            self.file.write(line)
@@ -126,14 +129,7 @@ MongoDB address and database name are specified in Scrapy settings;
 MongoDB collection is named after item class.
 
 The main point of this example is to show how to use :meth:`from_crawler`
-method and how to clean up the resources properly.
-
-.. note::
-
-    Previous example (JsonWriterPipeline) doesn't clean up resources properly.
-    Fixing it is left as an exercise for the reader.
-
-::
+method and how to clean up the resources properly.::
 
     import pymongo
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/request-response.rst b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
index 75b98d3b3..a45ea6939 100644
--- a/docs/topics/request-response.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
@@ -507,7 +507,13 @@ Response objects
 
     .. attribute:: Response.headers
 
-        A dictionary-like object which contains the response headers.
+        A dictionary-like object which contains the response headers. Values can
+        be accessed using :meth:`get` to return the first header value with the
+        specified name or :meth:`getlist` to return all header values with the
+        specified name. For example, this call will give you all cookies in the
+        headers::
+
+            response.headers.getlist('Set-Cookie')
 
     .. attribute:: Response.body
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/spider-middleware.rst b/docs/topics/spider-middleware.rst
index a38c1ab65..604f1864f 100644
--- a/docs/topics/spider-middleware.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/spider-middleware.rst
@@ -28,7 +28,12 @@ The :setting:`SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES` setting is merged with the
 :setting:`SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES_BASE` setting defined in Scrapy (and not meant to
 be overridden) and then sorted by order to get the final sorted list of enabled
 middlewares: the first middleware is the one closer to the engine and the last
-is the one closer to the spider.
+is the one closer to the spider. In other words,
+the :meth:`~scrapy.spidermiddlewares.SpiderMiddleware.process_spider_input`
+method of each middleware will be invoked in increasing
+middleware order (100, 200, 300, ...), and the
+:meth:`~scrapy.spidermiddlewares.SpiderMiddleware.process_spider_output` method
+of each middleware will be invoked in decreasing order.
 
 To decide which order to assign to your middleware see the
 :setting:`SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES_BASE` setting and pick a value according to where
diff --git a/docs/topics/spiders.rst b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
index 0e473709a..af676fccd 100644
--- a/docs/topics/spiders.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ scrapy.Spider
        spider that crawls ``mywebsite.com`` would often be called
        ``mywebsite``.
 
+       .. note:: In Python 2 this must be ASCII only.
+
    .. attribute:: allowed_domains
 
        An optional list of strings containing domains that this spider is
diff --git a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/redirect.py b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/redirect.py
index 4ed7e4c24..db276eefb 100644
--- a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/redirect.py
+++ b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/redirect.py
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 import logging
 from six.moves.urllib.parse import urljoin
 
+from w3lib.url import safe_url_string
+
 from scrapy.http import HtmlResponse
 from scrapy.utils.response import get_meta_refresh
-from scrapy.utils.python import to_native_str
 from scrapy.exceptions import IgnoreRequest, NotConfigured
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -65,8 +66,7 @@ class RedirectMiddleware(BaseRedirectMiddleware):
         if 'Location' not in response.headers or response.status not in allowed_status:
             return response
 
-        # HTTP header is ascii or latin1, redirected url will be percent-encoded utf-8
-        location = to_native_str(response.headers['location'].decode('latin1'))
+        location = safe_url_string(response.headers['location'])
 
         redirected_url = urljoin(request.url, location)
 

diff --git a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py
index 9db073cc5..e8c92affa 100644
--- a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py
+++ b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py
@@ -157,15 +157,15 @@ class RedirectMiddlewareTest(unittest.TestCase):
         latin1_location = u'/ação'.encode('latin1')  # HTTP historically supports latin1
         resp = Response('http://scrapytest.org/first', headers={'Location': latin1_location}, status=302)
         req_result = self.mw.process_response(req, resp, self.spider)
-        perc_encoded_utf8_url = 'http://scrapytest.org/a%C3%A7%C3%A3o'
+        perc_encoded_utf8_url = 'http://scrapytest.org/a%E7%E3o'
         self.assertEquals(perc_encoded_utf8_url, req_result.url)
 
-    def test_location_with_wrong_encoding(self):
+    def test_utf8_location(self):
         req = Request('http://scrapytest.org/first')
-        utf8_location = u'/ação'  # header with wrong encoding (utf-8)
+        utf8_location = u'/ação'.encode('utf-8')  # header using UTF-8 encoding
         resp = Response('http://scrapytest.org/first', headers={'Location': utf8_location}, status=302)
         req_result = self.mw.process_response(req, resp, self.spider)
-        perc_encoded_utf8_url = 'http://scrapytest.org/a%C3%83%C2%A7%C3%83%C2%A3o'
+        perc_encoded_utf8_url = 'http://scrapytest.org/a%C3%A7%C3%A3o'
         self.assertEquals(perc_encoded_utf8_url, req_result.url)
 
 

Document headers methods such as getlist()
It appears that current documentation does not mention how you can get values from HTTP `Headers` object.
Things like `response.headers.getlist('Set-Cookie')` to get all cookies are not explained (see https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues/2319)
tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::RedirectMiddlewareTest::test_latin1_location tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::RedirectMiddlewareTest::test_utf8_location
tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::RedirectMiddlewareTest::test_dont_redirect tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::RedirectMiddlewareTest::test_max_redirect_times tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::RedirectMiddlewareTest::test_priority_adjust tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::RedirectMiddlewareTest::test_redirect_301 tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::RedirectMiddlewareTest::test_redirect_302 tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::RedirectMiddlewareTest::test_redirect_302_head tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::RedirectMiddlewareTest::test_redirect_urls tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::RedirectMiddlewareTest::test_request_meta_handling tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::RedirectMiddlewareTest::test_spider_handling tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::RedirectMiddlewareTest::test_ttl tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::MetaRefreshMiddlewareTest::test_max_redirect_times tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::MetaRefreshMiddlewareTest::test_meta_refresh tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::MetaRefreshMiddlewareTest::test_meta_refresh_trough_posted_request tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::MetaRefreshMiddlewareTest::test_meta_refresh_with_high_interval tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::MetaRefreshMiddlewareTest::test_priority_adjust tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::MetaRefreshMiddlewareTest::test_redirect_urls tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py::MetaRefreshMiddlewareTest::test_ttl