app/django/core/xheaders.py
author Lennard de Rijk <ljvderijk@gmail.com>
Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:00:04 +0200
changeset 2678 a525a55833f1
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
Send out a Notification upon creation of a new Request entity. The receivers are specified by the corresponding Role logic this Role Request is for. Currently Organization and Club Administrators will receive "new request" messages about respectively Mentor and Club Membership requests. Fixes Issue 442.

"""
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)