I wonder if this is a backward compatibility issue. It looks like Auth always sets client_side=True, so any Auth call done via Ajax will do a full page redirect on the client side. Does that always make sense? Should we at least make it configurable?
Anthony On Monday, May 6, 2013 6:46:00 PM UTC-4, Aris Green wrote: > > Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I figured a few things out. I > am using a component for users to join an email list. I have them create > their users name and modify them with components loaded in the view > (ajax=False, ajax_trap=True). When you add an email address and password > into a 2 field custom form in the view, auth.login is called in the Ajax > POST. If the user successfully logs in, a form to update information is > returned via Ajax to the page for the user to edit and submit their > information. What happens is that in gluon/tools.py, redirect is called in > auth.login as I pass in the name of the component (without the .load > extension) as the next= parameter. There redirect is called. This use to > work, but the newer functionality has broken my existing site. Maybe I > should use auth.login_bare? I'll give that a try. > > Was my initial solution that elegant? Probably not due to a browser > redirect in an Ajax call. I guess the redirect(..., client_side=False) is > similar to delegating a different controller function and/or view to > handler the request (e.g. Server.Transfer(...) if anyone has had to code > up ASP .NET). > > Cheers, > Aris > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

