Django Unleashed

6.6 Revisiting Homepage Redirection

In Chapter 5: Creating Webpages with Controllers in Django, we saw how to use the HttpResponseRedirect class and redirect shortcut to redirect a URL pattern to another URL path and pattern (respectively) via a function view. At the time, we did not understand how Django was reversing the URL pattern into a URL. The redirect shortcut should now be much clearer. For the sake of clarity, let’s walk through the process again.

We started with the code shown in Example 6.46 in /suorganizer/views.py.

Example 6.46: Project Code

suorganizer/views.py in 2e8036623d

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1  from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect 2 3 4  def redirect_root(request): 5      return HttpResponseRedirect('/blog/' ...