You also need to return the result of bar() from foo. Example:

def bar(request):
   print "In bar"
   return HttpResponseRedirect('"http://example.com";)

def foo(request):
    return bar()

Regards,
Rendy Anthony
http://solyaris.wordpress.com

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:50 AM, shacker <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out why HttpResponseRedirect doesn't work when
> called from within another function. For example, this works, of
> course:
>
> def foo(request):
>  return HttpResponseRedirect('"http://example.com";)
>
> But this does not:
>
> def bar(request):
>  print "In bar"
>  return HttpResponseRedirect('"http://example.com";)
>
> def foo(request):
>  bar()
>
> In this second case, django will print "In bar" but the redirect does
> not occur - it fails silently. Feel like I'm not understanding
> something fundamental here.
>
> Clues? Thanks.
>
>
>
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