Opened 15 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#9805 closed Bug (wontfix)

reverse() does not add SCRIPT_NAME to the returned URL if called from middleware modules

Reported by: ElliottM Owned by: Malcolm Tredinnick
Component: Core (Other) Version: 1.0
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description (last modified by Malcolm Tredinnick)

For example, take the following middleware.py file, with one example middleware thing that redirects you to the login page if you are not logged in:

login_url=reverse('login')

class LoginMiddleware():
        def process_request(self, request):             
                if(request.user.is_anonymous() and request.path!=login_url):
                        #force login
                        return HttpResponseRedirect(login_url+'?next='+request.path)

In this case, login_url will be correct except for the fact that it will be missing the SCRIPT_NAME. Putting the reverse() call inside the process_request function solves the problem, but it makes no sense at all to call that reverse function for every request when it can be called once at server startup.

The cause is in django.core.handles.wsgi and django.core.handlers.modpython

if self._request_middleware is None:
   self.load_middleware()

set_script_prefix(req.get_options().get('django.root', ''))

As you can see, "set_script_prefix" is called AFTER middleware is loaded, so the script name is still unset when reverse() is called in the middleware above. Moving the set_script_prefix call above the load_middleware function solves the problem.

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reverse.diff (1.5 KB ) - added by ElliottM 15 years ago.
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Change History (9)

by ElliottM, 15 years ago

Attachment: reverse.diff added

Patch that fixes the error

comment:1 by ElliottM, 15 years ago

Summary: reverse() does not add SCRIPT_NAME to the returned URL if called from modules that contain middlewarereverse() does not add SCRIPT_NAME to the returned URL if called from middleware modules

comment:2 by Malcolm Tredinnick, 15 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Owner: changed from nobody to Malcolm Tredinnick

(Fixed description formatting.)

This isn't really fixing the problem, so much as hiding it. Loading the middlewares should not require access to SCRIPT_NAME (it can change between requests and the middleware is only loaded once). So the code you give actually contains a small bug -- probably not observable for something like the "logout" view, but a bug nonetheless, as it could reverse to a different URL for a different request.

There's a metnion in another ticket that we might add a kind of "lazy" reverse() that resolves upon usage, rather than declaration. When I find that ticket, I'll drop in a comment here and wontfix this one. Leaving open for now to remind me to hunt down the other case.

comment:3 by ElliottM, 15 years ago

In this particular case, my only reason for moving the reverse() call out to the middleware loading area is because unlike that example, I actually have several urls that I want to avoid redirecting on, and it just feels dumb to have to reverse those several urls in every single request, and then test them one by one, when i can just put them in a set at loading time and test for membership in that set. So a lazy reverse function wouldn't exactly help me.

It didn't occur to me when I was writing the patch that the exact same site could be used with different script_names though.

comment:4 by Jacob, 15 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

comment:5 by Aaron C. de Bruyn, 14 years ago

mtredinnick: I think you are talking about ticket #5925

comment:6 by Luke Plant, 13 years ago

Severity: Normal
Type: Bug

in reply to:  2 comment:7 by Aymeric Augustin, 13 years ago

Easy pickings: unset
UI/UX: unset

Replying to mtredinnick:

There's a mention in another ticket that we might add a kind of "lazy" reverse() that resolves upon usage, rather than declaration. When I find that ticket, I'll drop in a comment here and wontfix this one.

lazy_reverse was committed at r16121.

comment:8 by Julien Phalip, 12 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

Closing as advised in comment:2. reverse_lazy should be used in this case.

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