Mastering Django: Core

Appendix F. Request and Response Objects

Django uses request and response objects to pass state through the system.

When a page is requested, Django creates an HttpRequest object that contains metadata about the request. Then Django loads the appropriate view, passing the HttpRequest as the first argument to the view function. Each view is responsible for returning an HttpResponse object.

This document explains the APIs for HttpRequest and HttpResponse objects, which are defined in the django.http module.

HttpRequest objects

Attributes

All attributes should be considered read-only, unless stated otherwise below. session is a notable exception.

HttpRequest.scheme

A string representing the scheme of the request (http or https usually).

HttpRequest.body ...