Actually, doing something similar to this was actually a source of a DoS attack on PHP [1]. It does seem to me one of the features of Django that there is little processing done to the actual request.
Cheers, Mike Axiak 1: http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/MOPB-03-2007.html On May 3, 11:58 am, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 15:43 +0000, simonbun wrote: > > Suppose the following query parameters: > > myurl/?var=1&var=2&var=3 > > > Running this through QueryDict correctly gives me > > <MultiValueDict: {'var': ['1', '2', '3']}> > > > I had hoped that multiple levels in these variables would result in a > > nested dictionary, but no such luck. To illustrate the problem lets > > suppose the following query: > > > myurl/? > > countries[visited]=us&countries[visited]=dk&countries[notvisited]=be > > > It gets parsed as > > <MultiValueDict: {'countries[visited]': ['us', 'dk'], > > 'countries[notvisited]': ['be']}> > > > yet i would have hoped: > > <MultiValueDict: {'countries': {'visited': ['us', 'dk'], 'notvisited': > > ['be']}}> > > > I'm thinking it would be better to have QueryDict recurse through the > > values instead of just parsing one level deep. Is there a way to > > achieve what I want, or is this handled at the mod_python level? > > Trying to impose Python syntax on URLs doesn't seem like a good idea to > me (it leads to somewhat opaque URLs, for a start). Presumably you are > talking about this more in the sense of form submission, so let's think > of it as POST data, rather than URLs. > > You could write a function that takes Django's standard MultiValueDict > and returns the type of nested structure you are after. Not a change > worth making in core, but it's only a function you would have to write > once for your own use. > > Regards, > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
