I was trying to redirect the user to an external URL(such as https://stockoverflow.com) and that URL contains a login form.
I would like to fill in the username and password column for the user.
As if there's auto-complete function.
I can't figure it out by using redirect or HttpResponseRedirect.
Could someone enlight me or give me some directions?
You can pass the email and hashed password via GET parameter, then get them in destination URL and parse them into your form. But this approach is not recommended at all.
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is there any way to get back my users to the current page after they login and redirect to my callback url? for example my current page url is:
https://mydomain.test/post1
then my callback url is:
https:/mydomain.test/callback.php
I tried to add extra parameter to login url but got an error because of the Valid OAuth Redirect URIs url match. my url is dynamic so I need a way to set parameters that changes and start from there.
I am using allauth to provide registration and login in my django site. Everything else seems to be working fine other than that I am having problems to redirect the person to the current page after login.
I have a page where I have some interview questions and a typical url for it would be like
/questions/?company=google
This page contains a list of questions for the company google, but to view the answer the person needs to login. The answers are displayed in a dropdown box. However when the user clicks on login a request is sent to the login page as follows
/login/?next=/questions/
And the get parameter which was actually there in my actual page is not sent because of the & in my url. How can I solve this problem. It does not look nice that the person is redirected to a different page from where he/she tried to login.
I know sending the next parameter as a GET variable is not the solution, but is there a way I can send the redirect link as a POST variable from the template.
I tried another thing, in my view that displays the questions list. I set session variables which contains the url of the current link . If a user clicks on login, in my login view I check for this particular session variable. If it is set then I redirect to that page.
However the session variable is not received in the login view, I am not sure but I think the session is reset when the user goes to the login view.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Have you tried
next = request.get_full_path()
This will return correct path with all queries ( see docs ) , you can then pass it as GET param to redirect url e.g.
full_path = request.get_full_path()
return HttpResponseRedirect('%s?next=%s' % (reverse('login'), full_path))
You should encode the URL-parameter in this case. You want to send a variable like /questions/?company=google, but as you mentioned the ?, = (amongst others) characters are special ones. It has a special meaning when embedded in the URL. If you encode the variable with URL encoding, it becomes %2Fquestions%2F%3Fcompany%3Dgoogle. If you assign that to the parameter next, the URL becomes: /login/?next=%2Fquestions%2F%3Fcompany%3Dgoogle. This should redirect to the correct place on login.
I have a view that displays some movie data. I thought that it might be a good idea to have a view handle a an URL like movie-id/1234 to search for movie id 1234. Furthermore I would like to be able to enter the ID into a form and send that to a server and search for it. To do that I created a second entry in the urls.py file shown below.
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'movie-id/(?P<movie_id>.+?)/$', 'movieMan.views.detailMovie'),
url(r'movie-id/$', 'movieMan.views.detailMovie', name='movieMan.detailMovie.post'),
)
So if I want to pass data to my view either via a URL or a GET or POST request I have to enter two urls or is there a more elegant way? In the view's code I am then checking if there is any GET data in the incoming request.
To make the second url usable with the template engine, where I wanted to specify the view's url using the {% url movieMan.detailMovie.post %} syntax I had to introduce a name attribute on this url to distinguish between these two.
I am not sure if I am thinking too complicated here. I am now asking myself what is the first url entry good for? Is there a way to get the URL of a movie directly? When do these kinds of URLs come into play and how would they be generated in the template ?
Furthermore I would like to be able to enter the ID into a form and
send that to a server and search for it.
Is this actually a search? Because if you know the ID, and the ID is a part of the URL, you could just have a textbox where the user can write in the ID, and you do a redirect with javascript to the 'correct' URL. If the ID doesn't exist, the view should return a Http404.
If you mean an actual search, i.e. the user submitting a query string, you'll need some kind of list/result view, in which case you'll be generating all the links to the specific results, which you will be sure are correct.
I don't think there is a more elegant way.
I did almost the same thing:
url( r'^movies/search/((?P<query_string>[^/]+)/)?$', 'mediadb.views.search_movies' ),
The url pattern matches urls with or without a search parameter.
In the view-function, you will have to check whether the parameter was defined in the url or in the query string.
I have a question: how to get the current path of the url. Let's say, I have 3 navigation bars, about , blog and contact page. In each page, I have facebook, twitter and a manual email a friend button. When I clicked the email a friend button, and the current URL is www.example.com/about, the current URL is now already www.example.com/emailafriend. How can I get the www.example/about? Also in blog and contact. Please help me. Thanks.
How does your email a friend button work? Is it a django view that takes the current URL and emails it? If so, you don't want the "current" URL, which, as you note, is actually the email a friend URL. What you want to do is pass the URL you want to share as a URL parameter, ie:
/share?url=http://www.example.com/blog
Adding more info based on comments:
When I was referencing URL above, I was not referring to your django URL configuration. Let's take a step back.
On your About page you have a link to email a friend, right? That link is probably generated in your template, but it's the same on every page. Something like:
Email a friend
Instead of this, try this:
Email a friend
Now you need to make your email_a_friend view handle this. It can get the url via
request.get('url', '').
Some additional information:
You might want to escape the {{ request.get_full_path }} function so that it's escaped and URL safe, then you'll have to unescape it in your view. Once you get the URL back to your view, you can do as you please with it.
{{ request.get_full_path|urlencode }}
Try using Relative URLs like for example From www.example.com/about to get to www.example.com/email use /email. Using relative urls is the simplest solution .
Take a look at this.
Absolute vs relative URLs
It sounds like your want to get the referring URL (the URL that sent you to the current page). That is available to you in the request object, although it is not 100% reliable:
request.META['HTTP_REFERER']
See the documentation on HttpRequest objects for more information.
I have a value the user sets via a cookie and I want this value to be appended onto the URL after the user sets it. How can I enable this? Any ideas are welcome as I'm not so sure how to go about this.
This seems like an ineffective solution, but what if you write a view to check for the existance of the cookie, if it doesn't exist let them set it. If it does exist, HttpRedirect them to url + cookie-value. And add a line in your urls.py to match those urls.