On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:01:44AM -0700, Helge wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a function in my views.py that expects POST data from a form.
> As long as this function is called correctly, i. e. from within the
> form, everything works fine. But if I call this function directly by
> typing it in the URL, I'm getting an error page complaining about
> missing data (which is correct and okay for me, but may possibly seem
> a bit strange for an end user).
> 
> I wonder if there is a standard way in Django to prevent URLs from
> being called directly.

You can use the require_POST decorator to ensure that the view
has some POST data.

IIRC it responses with a 405 error if the POST data is missing
but that's not displayed as an error message to the user.  Maybe
this can be enhanced.

Arvin

-- 
Arvin Schnell, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Software Engineer, Research & Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"Django users" group.
To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to