Re: Custom Login page in Django

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You need to have sessions if you want login so you can tie a browser to a user, and the CSRF is tied to the session cookie.

F.

On Mar 20, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Aryak Sengupta <aryaksengupta@gmail.com> wrote:

> Alright... Thanks a lot..... But do I really require using sessions for implementing this simple functionality ... Or is it just a bad design that I had been trying?
>
> On 20 Mar 2014 20:28, "François Schiettecatte" <fschiettecatte@gmail.com> wrote:
> See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/topics/http/sessions/
>
> On Mar 20, 2014, at 10:50 AM, Aryak Sengupta <aryaksengupta@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Can you please elaborate....
> >
> > On 20 Mar 2014 20:17, "François Schiettecatte" <fschiettecatte@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You may be missing some middleware, eg:
> >
> > 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
> > 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
> >
> > 'django.contrib.sessions',
> >
> > Maybe your browser is rejecting cookies.
> >
> > François
> >
> > On Mar 20, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Aryak Sengupta <aryaksengupta@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes I do.... Where am I going wrong then?
> > >
> > > On 20 Mar 2014 20:06, "Robin Lery" <robinlery@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > do you have {% csrf_token % } in your forms?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Aryak Sengupta <aryaksengupta@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am new to Django (but not new to python) and I am looking forward to create a customized page using django. I have read about django's inbuilt authentication system but I want build it from scratch So here are the few ideas I am stumbling upon :
> > >
> > > • Creating a users class in the models.py with username and password as the fields (both are CharField)
> > >
> > > • Creating two views one named LoginView, which will depict the initial login page (such as a form imported from a module named forms.py) and another view named LoggedInView which will show only the username of the logged user
> > >
> > > • Mapping them into corresponding URLs
> > > I tried creating it with above mentioned thoughts but I got stuck with an error as follows:
> > >
> > > Forbidden (403)
> > > CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.
> > > Help
> > >
> > > Reason given for failure:
> > > CSRF cookie not set.
> > >
> > > I couldn't figure out why possibly I am getting this error for incorporating such a simple(and basic) functionality.
> > >
> > > I want to understand the best way/approach to go about this (for implementing this functionality). I am not worrying about the error for the time being since I didn't spend much time thinking about it (So I am not posting any code). I want to get my approach right first. I want to be flawless while implementing such basic and elementary stuffs.
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