Redirecting in Django with a specific status code

Question

If a user tries to access a page, I want him to be redirected to the login page, but with a status code 401 (unauthorized). Like this:

if not 'logged_user' in request.session:
    return redirect('mqr_admin:login', status=401)

But the redirect() function doesn't have the status param as the function render() has. What should I do?

you can either pass it to the function that is called attached to the endpoint, or (I wouldn't) pass it as a url parameter, as in mqr_admin:login?status=401 — E.Serra, Dec 18 '18 at 16:25
possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4356842/how-do-i-return-a-401-unauthorized-in-django — Walucas, Dec 18 '18 at 16:27
If your real goal is to redirect the user to a login page, why do you care what the response code is? — John Gordon, Dec 18 '18 at 16:47
@JohnGordon I was just wondering if that was a real thing I could do. — Bárbara Este, Dec 18 '18 at 17:54

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 18 '18 at 16:26

2

Use the HttpResponse

from django.http import HttpResponse
def yourView(request):    
    return HttpResponse('401 Unauthorized', status=401)

answered Dec 18 '18 at 16:26

Walucas

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 18 '18 at 17:01

0

This is not a thing you can do.

In HTTP, redirects are codes 3xx, mainly 301 and 302. That is how the browser knows to do a redirect at all.

If you return a 4xx status code, the browser will treat it as an error, not a redirect.

answered Dec 18 '18 at 17:01

Daniel Roseman

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