Re: file validation in admin form

Perhaps instead of rejecting specific file types, you should only allow specific file types? Most of the time a file upload is taking place the programmer has some sort of idea what the user will upload. This is probably the most secure method, even though it won't work for everyone. On Feb 20, 6

Re: file validation in admin form

Thanks for the pointer! The docs are at http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/validation/#ref-forms-validation. I had been letting Django use the default forms, and hadn't read much about forms, so I'd missed that hook. I used a clean_() method and it works perfectly. The only thing left

Re: file validation in admin form

Validation is a big subject, and the validation of files can be very complex aswell. Anyways to validate you need to define a clean method in your form. Here you put the code that can test things like file types, and whatever you can think of using python. I can't get you the link as I'm not at my

file validation in admin form

I'm totally new to Django and authorized/secure web apps, and really loving it for this. But I've got a few really novice questions. I've got a model with a FileField, to which users can upload an arbitrary file. In the model docs for the FileField it says, "Validate all uploaded files." And I'm n