#19265: deprecate redirect_to_login
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Reporter: ptone | Owner: nobody
Type: Cleanup/optimization | Status: new
Component: contrib.auth | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Accepted | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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redirect_to_login is documented as the only "helper" function in
contrib.auth - but what it does is relatively useless.
By itself, it does nothing to ensure that the destination can only be
reached by logged in users.
Presumably, if you want to only send someone to a url after logging in,
you would just use @login_required on the destination, and let it handle
the redirection.
This mildly implies that you are somehow limiting who gets to the
redirected destination - which of course is not true.
This is as much about cleaning up the docs, as having it documented
implies that it has some value, of which I'm pretty much missing.
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