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SSL, Apache, VirtualHosts, Django, and SuspiciousOperation’s

Posted on March 11, 2013 by

I recently upgraded to Django 1.4.5, which fixes security issues relating to malicious HTTP “Host” headers. Since my Django site does use the host header occasionally, I took the recommended step of adding an ALLOWED_HOSTS setting which whitelists the hosts … Continue reading →

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Making Django ORM more DRY with prefixes and Q’s

Posted on July 7, 2012 by

This post builds on Jamie Mathews’ excellent Building a higher-level query API: the right way to use Django’s ORM, which makes the solid argument that the “Manager API is a Lie”.  If you haven’t read that post, head over that … Continue reading →

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