Redirect / return to the same (previous) page in Django?

Question

What are the options when you want to return the user to the same page in Django and what are the pros / cons of each?

Methods I know:

• HTTP_REFERER
• GET parameter containing the previous URL
• Session data to save previous URL

Are there any others?

Answer 1

One way is to use the HTTP_REFERER header, as shown below:

 from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect def someview(request): ... return HttpResponseRedirect(request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER')) 

Not sure about the downsides of this!

Answer 2

Although the question and answer are outdated, I think he lacks a few options. I did not find any disadvantages with the methods, I would be glad to know if there are any?

• request.path_info
• request.get_full_path ()

• request.build_absolute_uri ()

   from django.shortcuts import redirect redirect(request.path_info) # No query parameters redirect(request.build_absolute_uri()) # Keeps query parameters redirect(request.get_full_path()) # Keeps query parameters 

Answer 3

100% working example

To view based on classes and functions:

 from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect ... return HttpResponseRedirect(request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER')) 

or

 from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect ... return HttpResponseRedirect(self.request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER')) 

Example -

 class TaskNotificationReadAllView(generic.View): def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs): TaskNotification.objects.filter(assigned_to=request.user).update(read=True) print(request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER')) return HttpResponseRedirect(request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER'))