There are two parameters to expire sessions, SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE and SESSION_COOKIE_AGE. If you want to expire in 5 minutes yours settings should like as: SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE = False SESSION_COOKIE_AGE = 5 * 60 To combine both learn how do it writing your custom middleware “Is there a way to combine behavior of SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE and SESSION_COOKIE_AGE”
You should just change you action url in your template: <form action=”{% url ‘submit’ %} “method=’post’> On the note of url namespaces… In order to be able to call urls using home namespace you should have in your main urls.py file line something like: for django 1.x: url(r’^’, include(‘home.urls’, namespace=”home”)), for django 2.x and 3.x … Read more
That piece of information is in the META attribute of the HttpRequest, and it’s the HTTP_REFERER (sic) key, so I believe you should be able to access it in the template as: {{ request.META.HTTP_REFERER }} Works in the shell: >>> from django.template import * >>> t = Template(“https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4406377/{{ request.META.HTTP_REFERER }}”) >>> from django.http import HttpRequest … Read more
The widget needs to be a function call, not a property. You were missing parenthesis. class UserForm(ModelForm): password = forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput()) class Meta: model = User
LOGIN_URL in your settings Reference: LOGIN_URL LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL
try: user = UniversityDetails.objects.get(email=email) except UniversityDetails.DoesNotExist: user = None I also see you’re storing your passwords in plaintext (a big security no-no!). Consider using the built-in auth system instead.
RequestFactory and Client have some very different use-cases. To put it in a single sentence: RequestFactory returns a request, while Client returns a response. The RequestFactory does what it says – it’s a factory to create request objects. Nothing more, nothing less. The Client is used to fake a complete request-response cycle. It will create … Read more
One of the way is using HTTP_REFERER header like as below: from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect def someview(request): … return HttpResponseRedirect(request.META.get(‘HTTP_REFERER’)) Not sure of cons of this!
You’re confusing form-encoded and JSON data here. request.POST[‘foo’] is for form-encoded data. You are posting raw JSON, so you should use request.body. received_json_data=json.loads(request.body)
Try running: python manage.py collectstatic Does the test work now? If so, this might be the configuration causing a problem: STATICFILES_STORAGE = ‘whitenoise.django.GzipManifestStaticFilesStorage’ as of whitenoise v4 this will fail and you should use: STATICFILES_STORAGE = ‘whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage’ Related: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32347324/2596187 Check out the Django documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/contrib/staticfiles/#django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.ManifestStaticFilesStorage.manifest_strict