Ok, I understand. But what if I want the auth stuff in a controller called 
user, and not default? How do I prevent the redirections taking place 
above? Shouldn't it have redirected to *user*/handle/login instead of *
default*/handle/login?

On Monday, February 25, 2013 12:17:04 AM UTC, Niphlod wrote:
>
> auth works inspecting request.args and generating the corresponding form.
> in a "default" setup, you have auth defined into def user(), so the url is
>
> /app/default/user/login
>
> the function (connected to the view) is *user*, not *login*. *login* is 
> the first request.args (*request.args(0)*) 
> It's perfectly fine that if you put return dict(form=auth()) inside def 
> handle() it works only when accessed as
> /app/default/handle/login
>
> If you want /app/default/handle to return just the login form, you should 
> return
>
> form=auth.login()
>
> directly (and have something else handling all other auth functions like 
> register, logout, retrieve_username, etc etc etc)
>
> On Monday, February 25, 2013 12:52:05 AM UTC+1, Vixus wrote:
>>
>> By default auth seems to assume everything is under: 
>> default/user/[login,register,etc.]
>> But I want to instead have everything under: 
>> user/handle/[login,register,etc.]
>> So I moved the user() function from default.py to handle() in user.py.
>>
>> The reason I wanted to do this was so I could have a component 
>> user/handle.load that I could add to any page via LOAD. I followed the 
>> examples from the web2py docs to do this. So I have:
>>
>> views/default/index.html:
>> {{extend 'layout.html'}}
>> {{=LOAD('user','handle.load',ajax=True)}}
>>
>> views/user/handle.html:
>> {{=form}}
>>
>> But when I view the default page all I get is an error saying: *invalid 
>> function (default/handle)*
>> Attempting to navigate to /app/user/handle.load directly results in the 
>> same error. The URL has changed to /app/default/handle.load/login
>>
>> So there seems to be some implicit routing going on. How do I fix this.
>>
>> *OR*
>>
>> Is there a better way to be doing a sidebar login via a component? All I 
>> want is a small login form in the sidebar, and a register button that takes 
>> the user to the registration page.
>> Thanks!
>>
>

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