On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 11:32 +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > I've got a model with a URLField, with verify_exists set to True, > which has suddenly started barfing "broken link" on a certain URL. I'm > quite sure the URL exists, and can't figure out why it can't get past > validation. This is the link: > > http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?id=1482 > > The URLField itself is nothing special (unique=True, that's all). I > get the same error in development and production, though using urllib > on my production machine opens the URL fine, and I can open it in a > browser on my development machine. I started a Python interpreter and > manually typed in most of what goes on in > forms.fields.URLField.clean() (minus the User Agent stuff, don't know > what that is), and it opened with no problem. When the validation > error comes back in the Admin interface, the url hasn't been truncated > or altered in any way, so I don't think that's it. I've entered URLs > with GET parameters before... > > I can't think of anything else! Has someone got a bright idea? I'm > running 1.1 pre-alpha SVN-9569.
Verify_exists uses an HTTP HEAD request to check the existence, since it doesn't need the whole page. Some web browsers are misconfigured and report 404 for URLS when a HEAD request is made, but not for the same resource via a GET request. So have a look at the result of something like "curl -I http://... " (or equivalent tool if you don't have curl around). Basically, force a HEAD request and see if that returns something sensible. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
