app/django/core/xheaders.py
author Pawel Solyga <Pawel.Solyga@gmail.com>
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:00:55 +0000
changeset 848 07fd6a603c24
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
Disable R0801 messages in pylintrc. R0801 messages indicates that a set of similar lines has been detected among multiple file. This usually means that the code should be refactored to avoid this duplication but in our case it's useless since it shows a lot of imports code or authors. Patch by: Pawel Solyga Review by: to-be-reviewed

"""
Pages in Django can are served up with custom HTTP headers containing useful
information about those pages -- namely, the content type and object ID.

This module contains utility functions for retrieving and doing interesting
things with these special "X-Headers" (so called because the HTTP spec demands
that custom headers are prefixed with "X-").

Next time you're at slashdot.org, watch out for X-Fry and X-Bender. :)
"""

def populate_xheaders(request, response, model, object_id):
    """
    Adds the "X-Object-Type" and "X-Object-Id" headers to the given
    HttpResponse according to the given model and object_id -- but only if the
    given HttpRequest object has an IP address within the INTERNAL_IPS setting
    or if the request is from a logged in staff member.
    """
    from django.conf import settings
    if (request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR') in settings.INTERNAL_IPS
            or (hasattr(request, 'user') and request.user.is_authenticated()
                and request.user.is_staff)):
        response['X-Object-Type'] = "%s.%s" % (model._meta.app_label, model._meta.object_name.lower())
        response['X-Object-Id'] = str(object_id)