id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
8287	Debug page shows wrong URL info when altering request.path	Ivan Giuliani	nobody	"Not sure if this is a bug or an expected behavior, but anyway...
I have a middleware that alters {{{request.path}}} in order to hide a certain part of the URL to the views, so if I have an URL like {{{/en/view/page/}}} this should become {{{/view/page/}}}. With recent upgrades this stopped working, and after a bit of investigating I found that this was due to [8015].
I spent a lot of time trying to understand why this was failing, since the debug page was showing the output I was expecting. For example, for {{{/en/view/page}}} I got:

{{{
Using the URLconf defined in project.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:

   ...
   3. ^view/(?P<title_slug>[\w-]+)/$
   ...

The current URL, view/page/, didn't match any of these.
}}}

While {{{view/page/}}} ''matches'' the 3rd url pattern.
This happens because the debug page shows {{{request.path}}}, while the URLconf actually evaluates {{{PATH_INFO}}} and {{{SCRIPT_NAME}}}.
I fixed the problem by altering {{{request.path_info}}} as well, but shouldn't the debug page show the URL that is actually evaluated by URLconf?
In case this should be fixed I can provide a patch, but actually I don't know if {{{.path_info}}} should be ''always'' shown or must be shown only in certain places within the debug page."		closed	HTTP handling	dev		fixed	request.path, urlconf, urls		Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0