diff -r 262b27ed23af -r 860e17e5118f app/soc/views/out_of_band.py
--- a/app/soc/views/out_of_band.py	Tue Dec 02 11:20:08 2008 +0000
+++ b/app/soc/views/out_of_band.py	Tue Dec 02 17:14:18 2008 +0000
@@ -25,11 +25,6 @@
 
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy
 
-from soc.views import helper
-
-import soc.views.helper.responses
-import soc.views.helper.templates
-
 
 class Error(Exception):
   """Base exception for out-of-band responses raised by logic or views.
@@ -45,46 +40,14 @@
         the response() method, produces the message to display on the
         response page; this can be a simple string containing *no* named
         format specifiers
-      context: see response()
+      context: see soc.views.helper.responses.errorResponse()
       **response_args: keyword arguments that are supplied directly to
         django.http.HttpResponse; the most commonly used is 'status' to
         set the HTTP status code for the response
     """
     self.message_fmt = message_fmt
-    self._context = context
-    self._response_args = response_args
-
-  def response(self, request, template=None, context=None):
-    """Creates an HTTP response from the OutOfBandResponse exception.
-  
-    Args:
-      request: a Django HTTP request
-      template: the "sibling" template (or a search list of such templates)
-        from which to construct the actual template name (or names)
-      context: optional context dict supplied to the template, which is
-        modified (so supply a copy if such modification is not acceptable)
-    """
-    if not context:
-      context = self._context
-
-    if not context:
-      context = helper.responses.getUniversalContext(request)
-
-    if not template:
-      template = []
-
-    # make a list of possible "sibling" templates, then append a default
-    templates = helper.templates.makeSiblingTemplatesList(template,
-        self.TEMPLATE_NAME, default_template=self.DEF_TEMPLATE)
-
-    context['status'] = self._response_args.get('status')
-
-    if not context.get('message'):
-      # supplied context did not explicitly override the message
-      context['message'] = self.message_fmt % context
-
-    return helper.responses.respond(request, templates, context=context,
-                                    response_args=self._response_args)
+    self.context = context
+    self.response_args = response_args
 
 
 class LoginRequest(Error):
@@ -100,9 +63,8 @@
     """Constructor used to set response message and HTTP response arguments.
   
     Args:
-      message_fmt: same as Error.__init__() message_fmt, with the addition
-        of a default value of None, in which case self.DEF_LOGIN_MSG_FMT is
-        used
+      message_fmt: same as Error.__init__() message_fmt, with the addition of
+        a default value of None, in which case self.DEF_LOGIN_MSG_FMT is used
       **response_args: see Error.__init__()
     """
     if not message_fmt: