On 11/19/05, Jeffrey E. Forcier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sune is correct--your problem stems from a misunderstanding of what a > URL really is :) Anything after a '?' character is not truly part of > the URL, but instead defines GET parameters which are sent to the > resulting view. > > In other words, a URL (Universal Resource Locator) defines the > location of a resource; when you send a URL to a Web server you're > requesting the resource that exists at that location, and the GET key/ > value pairs which follow after a '?' are only ways to parameterize > that request--they do not change which resource is being requested. > > Therefore, from a URLpattern's point of view, "r'^accounts/login/$'" > does indeed match the URL '/accounts/login/?next=/add_object/', and > attempting to do URL matching against URLs with '?' in them will not > do you much good! > > If you can give us more info on what you're trying to do with the '? > next=/whatever/' we might be able to give you tips on a more > efficient way of doing it, with regards to Django URLconfs :)
And so it becomes very obvious that I'm new to this whole web programming thing. Thank you for your patient explanations! What am I doing? I'm just trying to make use of the @login_required decorator: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/authentication/#the-login-required-decorator I'm hoping it'll be much easier now that you've explained the error of (at least one of) my ways :-) Bryan
