Allow ALLOWED_HOSTS to accept an IP-range / wildcard

[Tom Turner]

Hi

Now that Django 1.10.3 forces ALLOWED_HOSTS on with debug I have a problem.

The problem is that when I developing I use an ip-address range of 192.168.1.*.
The Ip-adress can change depending on the computer I use.

so I required the ability to add wildcard partly in an hostname.

ie

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['192.168.1.*', '.mydomain.com']

I have seen this solution that doesn't require Django to be changed however I don't like it as I feel this could be a secuirty issue

​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37031749/django-allowed-hosts-ips-range

I am happy to produce a patch however I will only do this if it's likely to get submitted

[Tim Graham]

I'm sympathetic to the use case, however, before coding I think it'd be good to raise the idea on the DevelopersMailingList to ensure no one sees a problem with it or has an alternative.

[Tom Turner]

After posting on the group there are way round the problem.

The one I going with is

from socket import gethostname, gethostbyname 
ALLOWED_HOSTS = [ gethostname(), gethostbyname(gethostname()), ]