Re: Trying to find something in multiple databases... Confused...

On Monday, June 18, 2012, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

On 18-6-2012 9:52, Laurence MacNeill wrote:
> well -- I hit the wrong key and posted that before I was finished typing...
>
> here's what's in my views.py file:
> def index(request)
>      current_username = os.environ['REMOTE_USER']

And you're sure this works? Try:
 return django.shortcuts.render_to_response(current_username)

here to verify it's coming through. Normally, the authenticated username
would be part of the request dictionary.

Yeah, it's not working...  How do I get the user-name from the request dictionary?  request.REMOTE_USER or somthing like that?

It's not using Django for the user-validation, though...  When someone logs into the site, they get redirected to a page that validates them.  This is controled by the Apache web-server itself -- if they try to access any document served by Apache, and they don't have a cookie on their computer, they're redirected to a different page where they enter their user ID and password, then are sent back to the original page.  The user-id is then stored in a linux environment variable called REMOTE_USER.  So I figured the only way to access it was via the os.environ method.

 

Almost correct:
if student is not None :
    # the student.html template will now have a variable named student
    # which is the student object you fetched
    return render_to_response('ta/student.html', student=student)
elif instructor is not None :
    #etc

Ahh, ok -- that makes sense...  Thanks...

L.

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