Question

In the before_request() function (below), I want to redirect the user to /login if they are not yet logged in. Is there a special variable that will give me the current URL that will work as the below example does?

@app.before_request
def before_request():
    # the variable current_url does not exist
    # but i want something that works like it
    if (not 'logged_in' in session) and (current_url != '/login'):
        return redirect(url_for('login'))

I need to check that the current URL is /login, because if I don’t the server goes into an infinite loop.

Answer 1

There are a couple of properties on the request object you can check, documented here, request.path is probably what you want. Can I suggest request.endpoint though, so you’ll be covered should you decide to route your view to another url, or multiple urls

@app.before_request
def before_request():
    if 'logged_in' not in session and request.endpoint != 'login':
        return redirect(url_for('login'))