In some cases i18n set_language does not change url language

[Eric Soroos]

Related to #29281, but this time with repro. Possibly also related to #26556.

When posting to /i18n/setlang/:

• with a referrer in a language that's not the current django cooke language like /km/admin/foo/bar,
• with a current language cookie of django_language=en
• and a post content of next=&language=en

django.urls.translate_urls attempts to resolve the url using the current request language (in this case, en) and fails, because the url is in a different language (km).

i18n.set_language then returns the original referrer in the location header of the redirect, and the language doesn't apparently change, confusing the user.

The patch for translate_urls is approximately:

from django.utils.translation import override, check_for_language, get_language_from_path

...

def translate_url(url, lang_code):
    """                                                                                                                                                                            
    Given a URL (absolute or relative), try to get its translated version in                                                                                                       
    the `lang_code` language (either by i18n_patterns or by translated regex).                                                                                                     
    Return the original URL if no translated version is found.                                                                                                                     
    """
    parsed = urlsplit(url)
    try:
        # URL may be encoded.                                                                                                                                                      
        try:
            match = resolve(unquote(parsed.path))
        except Resolver404:
            url_lang_code = get_language_from_path(unquote(parsed.path))
            if url_lang_code and check_for_language(url_lang_code):
                with override(url_lang_code):
                    match = resolve(unquote(parsed.path))
            else:
                raise
    except Resolver404:
        pass
    else:
...

​https://github.com/django/django/compare/main...EricSoroos:django:35034-translate-url

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Duplicate of #28567.

[Eric Soroos]

I don't think that this is a strict duplicate, since prefix_default_language doesn't enter into the code path.

The issue is when the current language cookie and the current url are out of sync. This comment: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28567#comment:14 does have the essential issue though -- translate_url only only functions on urls from the current language.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

As far as I'm aware, your issue in described in the https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28567#comment:5.

This comment: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28567#comment:14 does have the essential issue though

Feel-free to add a comment to the #28567.