Mastering Django: Core

HttpResponse objects

In contrast to HttpRequest objects, which are created automatically by Django, HttpResponse objects are your responsibility. Each view you write is responsible for instantiating, populating and returning an HttpResponse.

The HttpResponse class lives in the django.http module.

Usage

Passing strings

Typical usage is to pass the contents of the page, as a string, to the HttpResponse constructor:

>>> from django.http import HttpResponse 
>>> response = HttpResponse("Here's the text of the Web page.") 
>>> response = HttpResponse("Text only, please.",
   content_type="text/plain")

But if you want to add content incrementally, you can use response as a file-like object:

>>> response = HttpResponse() >>> response.write("<p>Here's the text ...