On 06/07/11 15:43, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote:
> Today I came across a very strange problem.
>
> When attempting to post a form (without the CSRF middleware being
> present in MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES), django would *always* return a blank
> page. If the post contained no data, it would come back fine, but if
> it did contain data, it would come back blank.
>
> Upon adding the CSRF middleware into the MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES, and
> adding {% csrf_token %} into the template, it would return back fine
> (and without csrf_token - it would return back an exception, as it
> should).
>
> Although it is a good thing that it happened (because I did actually
> forget to include CSRF middleware), I feel that Django should raise an
> exception (if this is the default behaviour), to tell the user they
> must enable CSRF middleware, rather than just returning a blank page.
>
> Any thoughts??
Sgreed, but there isn't enough information here to work out what is
going on. Please file a ticket if you can create a test case that will
reproduce it. I can't think of any code paths in Django that would
return 'a blank page' (though I'm not sure I know what you mean by that).
Luke
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