Changes between Initial Version and Version 2 of Ticket #27506


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Timestamp:
Nov 21, 2016, 7:37:04 PM (8 years ago)
Author:
Tim Graham
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I seem to remember having a similar thought that HttpRequest seemed like an usual place to do that validation, but I never investigated if there could be a better design.

Adding Carl to CC because he authored the addition of settings.ALLOWED_HOSTS (d51fb74360b94f2a856573174f8aae3cd905dd35). Maybe he remembers something about that. I found a comment from him in the private security tracker for the patch that has this todo item:

Consider validating all requests instead of only when get_host() is called, to make it less likely a misconfigured whitelist will be missed? I'm now leaning away from this, because it seems cleaner to only do the work when the value is requested, but I do think it's problematic that it could be so easy to deploy and forget to configure ALLOWED_HOSTS until someone tries to send a password reset email or something.

with Florian's reply:

  • CommonMiddleware checks the host every request.
  • CSRF middleware checks the host on every secure request.

So essentially you are most likely checking it all the time already (So I guess we could move that check up in the wsgi handling…)

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  • Ticket #27506 – Description

    initial v2  
    1 I've noticed that using ``build_absolute_uri`` might throw ``DisallowedHost``, which looks like an unexpected side effect.
     1I've noticed that using `HttpRequest.build_absolute_uri()` might throw `DisallowedHost`, which looks like an unexpected side effect.
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    33This is used for example by opbeat_python (https://github.com/opbeat/opbeat_python/blob/1b1e299d84b902c362e5833d6990e61b80c4a29e/opbeat/contrib/django/client.py#L125, called when capturing (https://github.com/opbeat/opbeat_python/blob/1b1e299d84b902c362e5833d6990e61b80c4a29e/opbeat/contrib/django/client.py#L149)) to add additional information to a captured event.
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    55This happens already during some exceptional state, where an extra exception causes extra issues - another project being affected seems to be django-slack (https://github.com/lamby/django-slack/issues/40).
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    7 I've not investigated much, but it looks like Django uses this as a central place to handle/throw the `DisallowedHost` exception?!
     7I've not investigated much, but it looks like Django uses this as a central place to handle/throw the `DisallowedHost` exception.
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    99Is there another API that should be used instead?
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