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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/request-response.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/request-response.txt b/docs/ref/request-response.txt index 0a337eba42..d7266f0aff 100644 --- a/docs/ref/request-response.txt +++ b/docs/ref/request-response.txt @@ -92,8 +92,14 @@ All attributes should be considered read-only, unless stated otherwise below. .. attribute:: HttpRequest.POST - A dictionary-like object containing all given HTTP POST parameters. See the - :class:`QueryDict` documentation below. + A dictionary-like object containing all given HTTP POST parameters, + providing that the request contains form data. See the + :class:`QueryDict` documentation below. If you need to access raw or + non-form data posted in the request, access this through the + :attr:`HttpRequest.body` attribute instead. + + .. versionchanged:: 1.5 + Before Django 1.5, HttpRequest.POST contained non-form data. It's possible that a request can come in via POST with an empty ``POST`` dictionary -- if, say, a form is requested via the POST HTTP method but |