[1.8.x] Fixed #25048 -- Documented that runservers strips headers with underscores.

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Backport of 7b6d3104f2 from master
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Tim Graham 2015-07-09 09:06:28 -04:00
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@ -170,6 +170,12 @@ All attributes should be considered read-only, unless stated otherwise below.
header called ``X-Bender`` would be mapped to the ``META`` key
``HTTP_X_BENDER``.
Note that :djadmin:`runserver` strips all headers with underscores in the
name, so you won't see them in ``META``. This prevents header-spoofing
based on ambiguity between underscores and dashes both being normalizing to
underscores in WSGI environment variables. It matches the behavior of
Web servers like Nginx and Apache 2.4+.
.. attribute:: HttpRequest.user
An object of type :setting:`AUTH_USER_MODEL` representing the currently