A third party is sending us a flat file that is supposed to contain exclusively printable ASCII characters. However, we ve discovered that there s a string of about 50 0x00 bytes in the middle of the file.
We want to be able to upload the file to our web application, but I ve discovered that Django doesn t seem to like the null characters in the multipart/form-data. If I remove the null characters, the upload succeeds. (Sorry I don t have the stack trace available at the moment, but will produce one if necessary)
We can pre-process the file to remove the null characters and/or work with our third party to fix their file generator, but I don t like to leave mystical problems like this.
Does this sound like a bug in Django or is there some aspect of multipart/form-data that I don t fully understand? Do I need to set a transfer encoding of some sort so Django doesn t get hung up on the null characters?