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Ticket #14955: urrlib2_head_request.diff

File urrlib2_head_request.diff, 1013 bytes (added by Claude Paroz, 14 years ago)
Use HEAD HTTP request instead of GET

diff --git a/django/core/validators.py b/django/core/validators.py
index b1b82db..2fd1253 100644

                class URLValidator(RegexValidator):
         if self.verify_exists:
             import urllib2
+            class HeadRequest(urllib2.Request):
+                def get_method(self):
+                    return "HEAD"
             headers = {
                 "Accept": "text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5",
                 "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5",
-…
+               class URLValidator(RegexValidator):
                 "User-Agent": self.user_agent,
+            }
             try:
                 req = urllib2.Request(url, None, headers)
+                req = HeadRequest(url, None, headers)
                 u = urllib2.urlopen(req)
             except ValueError:
                 raise ValidationError(_(u'Enter a valid URL.'), code='invalid')