Question

The rendered template contains the following:

invalid context variable: 'request.META.REQUEST_METHOD'

I printed our locals() inside the view and I can clearly see

META:{
    'REQUEST_METHOD': 'GET',
    ...
}

Any ideas on what could cause this ?

Answer 1

For your template to receive the request object, you will need to render the template with a RequestContext.

If you are using django.shortcuts.render_to_response something like the below:

return render_to_response(template_name, dictionary)

then you should note that, from the linked docs:

By default, the template will be rendered with a Context instance

and you will want to instead use the following construct:

return render_to_response(template_name, dictionary, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

However, better still would be to use django.shortcuts.render (introduced in Django 1.3) which uses a RequestContext by default, so you can just:

return render(request, template_name, dictionary)