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authorJacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob@jacobian.org>2009-05-08 11:10:23 +0000
committerJacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob@jacobian.org>2009-05-08 11:10:23 +0000
commit864b78135a61e33e4433c95fd760d04ed8fe4c50 (patch)
treefa9f1b43edbcab60f5eadea147a0541c526c48c4 /docs/ref
parent7935231ef086b5649136dfbb2e49e3e413ecb344 (diff)
Fixed #10188: prevent newlines in HTTP headers. Thanks, bthomas.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.0.X@10709 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -444,6 +444,11 @@ To set a header in your response, just treat it like a dictionary::
>>> response = HttpResponse()
>>> response['Pragma'] = 'no-cache'
+.. versionadded:: 1.1
+
+HTTP headers cannot contain newlines. An attempt to set a header containing a
+newline character (CR or LF) will raise ``BadHeaderError``
+
Telling the browser to treat the response as a file attachment
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