Hi Malcom, Thanks for the response. I thought the same about the request headers being read only, and hadn't heard of something modifying the request header, only the response.
b On Feb 18, 5:02 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 07:16 -0800, Brandon Taylor wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > I know how to modify a responseheadervalue, but not arequestheader > > value. I need to integrate with an external system that is injecting a > > value in therequestheaderthat I need to check for. > > > Is it possible to mock this behavior in Django? I'm not very familiar > > with how these values get added to therequest/response from Apache in > > the first place. > > Are you trying to modify them in the test system? If so, you can add > headers via the test.client.Client class. That simulates setting them on > the client side. > > If you're trying to modify them some other way, then the answer is > "don't do that".Requestobjects are read-only, not modifiable. > > Your final question, above, doesn't make a lot of sense. Headers are > part of the HTTP data. They are just lines of text at the start of > therequest. Apache (or other web server) parses those lines and passes > them, via some data structure or other, to consumers such as Django. > Django then uses that data structure (it's different for, say, > mod_python and WSGI interfaces) to create therequest.META dictionary. > > Regards, > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
