3 files changed, 20 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/rest_framework/fields.py b/rest_framework/fields.py
index 8ae8dd4a..518ba41a 100644
--- a/rest_framework/fields.py
+++ b/rest_framework/fields.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ from django.core import validators
 from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.db.models.fields import BLANK_CHOICE_DASH
+from django.http import QueryDict
 from django.forms import widgets
 from django.utils.encoding import is_protected_type
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
@@ -392,10 +393,15 @@ class BooleanField(WritableField):
     }
     empty = False
 
-    # Note: we set default to `False` in order to fill in missing value not
-    # supplied by html form.  TODO: Fix so that only html form input gets
-    # this behavior.
-    default = False
+    def field_from_native(self, data, files, field_name, into):
+        # HTML checkboxes do not explicitly represent unchecked as `False`
+        # we deal with that here...
+        if isinstance(data, QueryDict):
+            self.default = False
+
+        return super(BooleanField, self).field_from_native(
+            data, files, field_name, into
+        )
 
     def from_native(self, value):
         if value in ('true', 't', 'True', '1'):
diff --git a/rest_framework/generics.py b/rest_framework/generics.py
index bcd62bf9..8e6b8e26 100644
--- a/rest_framework/generics.py
+++ b/rest_framework/generics.py
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ class GenericAPIView(views.APIView):
         page_query_param = self.request.QUERY_PARAMS.get(self.page_kwarg)
         page = page_kwarg or page_query_param or 1
         try:
-            page_number = int(page)
+            page_number = strict_positive_int(page)
         except ValueError:
             if page == 'last':
                 page_number = paginator.num_pages
diff --git a/rest_framework/tests/test_fields.py b/rest_framework/tests/test_fields.py
index 6836ec86..ebccba7d 100644
--- a/rest_framework/tests/test_fields.py
+++ b/rest_framework/tests/test_fields.py
@@ -896,3 +896,12 @@ class CustomIntegerField(TestCase):
         self.assertFalse(serializer.is_valid())
 
 
+class BooleanField(TestCase):
+    """
+        Tests for BooleanField
+    """
+    def test_boolean_required(self):
+        class BooleanRequiredSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
+            bool_field = serializers.BooleanField(required=True)
+
+        self.assertFalse(BooleanRequiredSerializer(data={}).is_valid())