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10306	login.html example FORM tag is wrong in http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/	jkafader	Kevin Kubasik	"Hi I just thought I'd pass this along:

the ACTION parameter on the FORM tag for your sample login.html template is almost certainly wrong. It should not be '.' -- I'm not an expert on FORM ACTION but I think it should instead be '' , which at least worked for me.

This cost me, actually, about an hour of development time, thinking there was something drastically wrong with the way I was passing or handling the ?next= parameter in my login form. You see, an action of '.' cuts off the GET CGI string, making your form unable to redirect properly (django.contrib.auth.views.login gets the 'redirect_to' variable from the GET string, not from POST), but still, confusingly, logging in the user correctly.

This really took up a lot of time to figure out, I guess I should have gone with my original instinct of action="""" with my login.html rather than slavishly copying the one in the docs. But I just thought I'd let you know about an unnecessary gotcha.

--james"		closed	Documentation	1.0		fixed	kkmegapatch		Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0