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AP257
AP257

Reputation: 93793

Django: check cookie on every page?

In Django: what's the best way to check whether a cookie is set before loading every page?

Background: I'm working with a site that uses LDAP auth. I want to avoid having to ask forrequest.META.get('REMOTE_USER') on every single page, because it absolutely hammers the server: it's requested for every resource on the page, the server gets tied up, falls back to Basic auth and the user sees lots of dialogs.

Therefore, I would like to do the following on every page in the site:

Basically, I want an approximation of the @login_required decorator, without actually using the Django login/user framework.

Any suggestions for the nicest way to do this for all pages in the site, without repeating lots of code?

many thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1485

Answers (1)

gcbirzan
gcbirzan

Reputation: 1514

You want to add a middleware, see http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/middleware/#process-request. Return a http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpResponseRedirect if the cookie is not set, None if it's set.

Upvotes: 3

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