Hi Luke,

Thanks for the reply.

I'll set up a test case in a fresh 1.2 django instance, and will let
you know the results (and the code used).

Cal

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Luke Plant <l.plant...@cantab.net> wrote:
> On 06/07/11 15:43, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote:
>> Today I came across a very strange problem.
>>
>> When attempting to post a form (without the CSRF middleware being
>> present in MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES), django would *always* return a blank
>> page. If the post contained no data, it would come back fine, but if
>> it did contain data, it would come back blank.
>>
>> Upon adding the CSRF middleware into the MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES, and
>> adding {% csrf_token %} into the template, it would return back fine
>> (and without csrf_token - it would return back an exception, as it
>> should).
>>
>> Although it is a good thing that it happened (because I did actually
>> forget to include CSRF middleware), I feel that Django should raise an
>> exception (if this is the default behaviour), to tell the user they
>> must enable CSRF middleware, rather than just returning a blank page.
>>
>> Any thoughts??
>
> Sgreed, but there isn't enough information here to work out what is
> going on. Please file a ticket if you can create a test case that will
> reproduce it. I can't think of any code paths in Django that would
> return 'a blank page' (though I'm not sure I know what you mean by that).
>
> Luke
>
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