Re: Automatically direct unauthenticated users to homepage

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:25 AM, CrabbyPete <pete.douma@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a site with lots of views. When someone comes to my site and is
> not logged in I direct them to the homepage to login. However a user
> could type in a whole url for a view and it will go there and cause an
> error because the view expects the user to be logged in. I could put
> logic in every view to see if the user is logged in but it seems
> redundant. Is there a way to force anonymous users to the home even if
> they type in a full url to a specific view
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You can use middleware to redirect all unauthenticated users to your
login page, something like this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3214589/django-how-can-i-apply-the-login-required-decorator-to-my-entire-site-excludi

Colin

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