authentication - Django : request.user not set after redirect -

specifically, after authentication , redirect, request.user anonymous user.

login (view function)

def login(request): if request.method == 'post':      form = loginform(request.post)       if form.is_valid():         #django.contrib.auth.login         login(request, form.get_user())         str = reverse('cm_base.views.index')         return httpresponseredirect(str)     else:             # password / email combination must have been incorrect         pass  else:     form = loginform()  return render_to_response('cm_base/login.html',                            {"debug": true,                            'form' : form                            },                           context_instance=requestcontext(request)) 

in index view, removed login_required decorator , tested request.user object

def index(request): test = request.user.is_authenticated()  return render_to_response('cm_base/index.html',                            {"debug": true,                            "user": request.user,},                           context_instance=requestcontext(request)) 

test returns false.

fix

i ended calling index view directly. still confused why user object lost when called httpresponseredirect.

def login(request): if request.method == 'post':     form = loginform(request.post) # not shown in example      if form.is_valid():         login(request, form.get_user())         str = reverse('cm_base.views.index')         return index(request)     else:             # password / email combination must have been incorrect         pass  else:     form = loginform() 

a lot of things going on here shouldn't be. first, don't need pass request.user, available default long using requestcontext, are.

login() method, doing? django provides built-in login method should using if using default authentication backend.

you not checking if user enabled or disabled.

here different version of code, adapted example in documentation:

from django.shortcuts import render, redirect django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login  def login_view(request):    form = loginform(request.post or {})    ctx = {'form': form}     if form.is_valid():        username = form.cleaned_data['username']       password = form.cleaned_data['password']        user = authenticate(username, password)        if not user:          ctx['errors'] = 'invalid login'          return render(request, 'login.html', ctx)        if not user.is_active:          ctx['errors'] = 'user locked'          return render(request, 'login.html', ctx)        login(request, user)       return redirect('home')     else:        return render(request, 'login.html', ctx)