When STATIC_URL starts with 'http://' an exception is thrown in DEBUG mode

[Sergey Grigoriev]

I have set up Apache to serve my static files,
STATIC_ROOT is /var/www/static

STATIC_URL is '​http://localhost/static'

The error is:

ImproperlyConfigured at /booking/page1

URL '​http://localhost/static' not allowed as static prefix

Request Method: GET
Request URL: ​http://localhost:8000/booking/page1
Django Version: 1.3 rc 1
Exception Type: ImproperlyConfigured
Exception Value:

URL '​http://localhost/static' not allowed as static prefix

Exception Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/conf/urls/static.py in static, line 23
Python Executable: /usr/bin/python
Python Version: 2.6.6
Python Path:

['/home/serg/Work/sms/webui',

'/usr/lib/python2.6',
'/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2',
'/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk',
'/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old',
'/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages',
'/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages',
'/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL',
'/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10',
'/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6',
'/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0',
'/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0']

[Sergey Grigoriev]

After setting DEBUG to False in settings.py the exception is not thrown anymore.

elif ':' in prefix:

raise ImproperlyConfigured("URL '%s' not allowed as static prefix" % prefix)

I don't think that the developer in DEBUG mode should be limited to use relative path only.

[Sergey Grigoriev]

Patch

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Not sure what the right response is here, but it's a problem with a new feature, so marking as a blocker to make sure it isn't forgotten before 1.3 final.

[Jannis Leidel]

In [15839]:

Fixed #15598 -- Updated static URL helper to be no-op on non-local prefixes. Thanks, traff.