Entries published on December 11, 2007

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Requiring HTTP methods

Just a quick tip today: someone on IRC tonight was asking for an easy way to write a Django view which restricts itself to only allowing a specific HTTP method or methods. For example, a web-based API might want to only allow POST to specific views.

This is actually pretty easy to do with a set of decorators built in to Django, in the module django.views.decorators.http. Specifically, the fix for ticket #703 added three useful things to that module:

• require_POST is a decorator which checks that the HTTP method of the request was POST, and returns HTTP 405 — “method …

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