Faced with a similar problem, I used approach 2, with a function global at 
the template level (my base template) that pops any messages, if any, from 
the session storage object and displays them, a somewhat similar approach 
to what `django` does.

I did this to avoid having to deal with this in every URL handler.

On Wednesday, August 7, 2013 5:14:04 AM UTC+3, Bill Seitz wrote:
>
> Cool, thanks. I'm going with session.msg...
>
> On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 3:46:01 PM UTC-5, NSC wrote:
>>
>> I guess the answer is yes.  I should have clarified that I have a 
>> common.py module that's imported on all of my pages.  The message goes in 
>> the common class.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Bill Seitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> So then does every page class need to start with a 'msg = None' bit to 
>>> reset things?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 1:32:25 PM UTC-5, NSC wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm often frustrated by the encoding and display intricacies of passing 
>>>> messages around in gets/posts, so I usually end up doing one of the 
>>>> following.  (Choose the one that's best for your situation.)
>>>>
>>>> 1) put the message in a cookie, then have the target page (or all pages 
>>>> for that matter) check the 'message' cookie and display whatever is in 
>>>> there.
>>>>
>>>> 2) stick a message in a session variable (if you're using session) and 
>>>> display whatever message is there.
>>>>
>>>> These two have always worked for me.  I usually do # 2, and have code 
>>>> on every page to check for messages and display.  I also have a shared 
>>>> javascript lib for how the message is presented, so it works on every page.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps... S
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Bill Seitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Often, after a user POST, I want to end by redirecting to a URL. 
>>>>> Sometimes I want to pass along a status message and have that displayed 
>>>>> on 
>>>>> the target URL page.
>>>>>
>>>>> My first thought is to
>>>>> 1. pass the message as url-query-arg - web.found(target + '?msg=$msg)
>>>>> 2. have a handler in the base layout - $if msg....
>>>>>
>>>>> But:
>>>>> a. is this a bad security risk?
>>>>> b. if not, what am I missing as the process for catching the msg in 
>>>>> the base layout? Backtrace shows that the msg is there within 
>>>>> request/input 
>>>>> but seem to need some with/import/whatever to get access to it....
>>>>>
>>>>> thx
>>>>>
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