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prevent GET or POST requests

Author:
jerzyk
Posted:
December 11, 2007
Language:
Python
Version:
.96
Tags:
view request post
Score:
-2 (after 6 ratings)

This will return HTTP 405 if request was not POSTed. same way you can forbide POST request, change 'POST' to 'GET'

Decorators provided for your convenience. 

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from django.http import HttpResponseNotAllowed

def my_view(request):
    if request.method != 'POST':
        return HttpResponseNotAllowed('Only POST here')


# decorators
def post_only(func):
    def decorated(request, *args, **kwargs):
        if request.method != 'POST':
            return HttpResponseNotAllowed('Only POST here')
        return func(request, *args, **kwargs)
    return decorated

def get_only(func):
    def decorated(request, *args, **kwargs):
        if request.method != 'GET':
            return HttpResponseNotAllowed('Only GET here')
        return func(request, *args, **kwargs)
    return decorated

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jerzyk (on December 11, 2007):

django has it's own decorators from django.views.decorators.http import require_http_methods, require_GET, require_POST

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