Re: Detecting browser type after login

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Kurtis Mullins <kurtis.mullins@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry for the double-message. Anyways, if you do want to do what that other
>> person recommended, simply find the View that the user is redirected to
>> after logging in. Then, modify the "context data" of that view to dump
>> whatever data to the template. And then do some magic in the template based
>> upon that context data. In short, put this logic in the view the user is
>> sent to after they've logged in.
>
> What view they are redirected to is not consistent. It depends on what
> the user is permissioned for and what features the customer has paid
> for. But I may be able to do this in some common part of the code.
> Thanks.

Another issue with this is that I only want to display the pop up
once, immediately after they login. I don't think I can tell if that's
the case in the view, only in the code that is called after login().

>
>
>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Kurtis Mullins <kurtis.mullins@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is the "Dialog Box" going to be presented using Javascript? If so, why not
>>> use Javascript for this functionality? I'd typically only use this type of
>>> functionality to serve pages when javascript isn't enabled or you need to
>>> show various templates based upon the type of browser (for example, a Mobile
>>> browser). Just a suggestion.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > I've only been working with django for 6 months, and I'm not really
>>>> > clear on how the login process works.
>>>> >
>>>> > I have a client that has a login screen created by a template. It has
>>>> > a submit button with:
>>>> >
>>>> > <form id="login" action="/accounts/login/" method="POST">
>>>> >
>>>> > In their urls file they have:
>>>> >
>>>> > (r'^accounts/login/$', login)
>>>> >
>>>> > In their views file they call login(request)
>>>> >
>>>> > What they want is, after the user has successfully logged in, I need
>>>> > to detect which browser they are using, and depending on which it is,
>>>> > potentially pop up a dialog box. I can't figure out where that code
>>>> > would live. I'm not asking how to detect the browser type, but rather,
>>>> > where that javascript code would go, and how I would cause it to get
>>>> > invoked after the login.
>>>>
>>>> Someone suggested getting the browser type on the server side, and
>>>> then adding a variable to my response and check it in the template. I
>>>> like this solution, however I cannot figure out how to add the
>>>> variable to the response. After the successful login, the code calls
>>>> HttpResponseRedirect. How can I can I add a variable to that?
>>>>
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