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authorRussell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com>2011-09-10 00:47:00 +0000
committerRussell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com>2011-09-10 00:47:00 +0000
commit5f287f75f2277ba821dcf5c444ab12d8eff6cce3 (patch)
treef665fe5b63d6969753ba90080728fc23bd767279 /docs/ref/forms
parent33076af6f2aa5285b3a70246e14163b901b512f7 (diff)
Altered the behavior of URLField to avoid a potential DOS vector, and to avoid potential leakage of local filesystem data. A security announcement will be made shortly.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@16760 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -799,6 +799,11 @@ Takes the following optional arguments:
If ``True``, the validator will attempt to load the given URL, raising
``ValidationError`` if the page gives a 404. Defaults to ``False``.
+.. deprecated:: 1.3.1
+
+ ``verify_exists`` was deprecated for security reasons and will be
+ removed in 1.4. This deprecation also removes ``validator_user_agent``.
+
.. attribute:: URLField.validator_user_agent
String used as the user-agent used when checking for a URL's existence.