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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