Question

Can anyone tell me why in the following code I get redirected to yahoo.com instead of google.com?

urls

urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^$', initialRequest,))

view

def initialRequest(request):

    if request.user.is_authenticated:
        return HttpResponseRedirect('http://yahoo.com')
    else:
        return HttpResponseRedirect('http://google.com')

Answer 1

Shouldn’t it be request.user.is_authenticated() i.e. with brackets as it’s a function?

For Django 1.10 +

is_authenticated is now an attribute (although it is being kept backwards compatible for now).