Sorry to dig something old up, but is there a way to time it? like the
auth login?
On Feb 28, 7:11 am, puercoespin <jzaragoza.puercoes...@gmail.com>
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> Very useful information.
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> Thanks Jonathan
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> On 25 feb, 17:11, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
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> > On Feb 25, 2011, at 2:02 AM, SergeyPo wrote:
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> > > Hello everyone!
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> > > I want to do something like:
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> > > def selector():
> > > try:
> > > x = db.headers[request.vars.ID]
> > > if x is None:
> > > response.flash = T('ID incorrect')
> > > redirect(URL(r=request, f='index', args=(request.args[1])))
> > > except:
> > > response.flash = T('ID incorrect')
> > > redirect(URL(r=request, f='headers', args=(request.args[1])))
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> > > response.flash does not keep its value when you redirect. Is it
> > > possible to fix or workaround?
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> > As others have already said, you want to use session.flash here. It's
> > useful to understand why.
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> > Redirect is itself a response, sending a redirection code and the new URL
> > to the requesting browser. When that happens, everything in response,
> > including response.flash, is discarded--the redirection becomes the entire
> > response.
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> > On every request from the browser, web2py initializes a new response
> > dictionary (along with request and some other stuff). It sets
> > response.flash = session.flash, and then sets session.flash = None. So
> > anything you store in session.flash is used as response.flash for the
> > *next* request/response, which is exactly what you want when you're calling
> > redirect.
