From 5f287f75f2277ba821dcf5c444ab12d8eff6cce3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell Keith-Magee Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:47:00 +0000 Subject: 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 --- docs/ref/forms/fields.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/ref/forms') diff --git a/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt b/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt index be1019c16e..437610384e 100644 --- a/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt +++ b/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt @@ -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. -- cgit v1.3