django-custom-401
Summary
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When you raise a PermissionDenied exception in a view, Django returns a pretty
ugly 401 error page. Wouldn't it be great if we could customize that page?
Installation
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1) Put custom_401 in your PYTHONPATH.
2) Put Custom401Middleware in your settings file:
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'custom_401.middleware.Custom401Middleware',
...
)
3) Optional: customize the default template location in custom_401/__init__.py
4) Create a template to use when PermissionDenied is raised and put it in the
location specified in custom_401/__ini__.py. The template by default will
receive the exception in its context as EXCEPTION, as well as a
standard RequestContext (fork if you need more/less context).
Note on 401
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It's debatable whether or not a 401 Unauthorized error is the correct HTTP
response to use when raising a PermissionDenied exception [1]. If you're a
stickler for that kind of stuff, feel free to fork this project and modify
the HTTP response to be a 403, or whatever you feel is more appropriate [2].
[1] http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4354
[2] http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/813/