I am working with Python and the Django framework. When I want to use hyperlinks , I shouldn't write the full URL manually right ? I have to use some function that returns domain names , and concatenate the path to it manually. So, how can I get the domain name ?
Like:
For this, I want to write :
"http://"+somefunction()+"/path/to/file.ext"
Is there an equivalent of $_SERVER['HTTP_URI'] in Python.
For original host of current request, you could use request.get_host() or directly access request['HTTP_HOST'].
For your needs django offers Sites framefork
>>> from django.contrib.sites.models import Site
>>> Site.objects.get_current().domain
'example.com'
>>> 'http://%s/path/to/file.ext' % Site.objects.get_current().domain
'http://example.com/path/to/file.ext'
Not answering your question directly, but Django has a host of ways of handling URL construction for you, so you don't need to hardcode things.
Inside your Python code:
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
def my_redir_view(request):
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('another_view'))
Inside a template:
<a href="{% url 'logout' %}">Logout</a>
Building absolute URLs (on the relatively rare occasions they're needed):
redirect_uri = request.build_absolute_uri(reverse('openid_auth'))
Generally you don't want to be doing manual URL construction - the above methods are your friends.
