Django 'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'set_cookie'

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I keep on getting this exception when I do request.set_cookie() in the process_view of a custom middleware class. Here is the order of middleware classes in my settings.py:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'website.middleware.UserLastActiveMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',

)

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 03 '13 at 06:47

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To start off with, set_cookie() is a method of HttpResponse, not HttpRequest, as you set cookies in your response to a requests.

Secondly, your middleware should come after AuthenticationMiddleware, since presumably it has to do with users.

answered Jul 03 '13 at 06:47

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 03 '13 at 06:44

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You should set_cookie() call from response object. Example:

def process_response(self, request, response):
    ...
    response.set_cookie('user_agreement', user_agreement, domain='.mysite.com')
    return response

answered Jul 03 '13 at 06:44

Abbasov Alexander

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Now I have a new exception: `NoneType' object has no attribute 'has_header'`. However, in my view I have `return self.render_to_response(context)`. What could it be? – Dmitriy Smirnov Jul 03 '13 at 06:51
Where you it use, middleware or `views.py`? – Abbasov Alexander Jul 03 '13 at 06:58
I'm trying to set the cookie in the middleware. In `views.py` I have a class based view with a TemplateResponseMixin and so the `get` function of the view returns `self.render_to_response(context)`. – Dmitriy Smirnov Jul 03 '13 at 07:00
It's already another problem instead this question. But it seems you wrong calling `render_to_response(template_name[, dictionary][, context_instance][, content_type])` – Abbasov Alexander Jul 03 '13 at 07:04

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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You can take a look at this question: Django: WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'user' on some pages?

This problem usually occurs when you do not add the trailing slash because then a redirect is done to the url containing a trailing slash

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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answered Jul 03 '13 at 06:45

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Django 'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'set_cookie'

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