How do I pass template context information when using HttpResponseRedirect in Django?

Question

I have a form that redirects to the same page after a user enters information (so that they can continue entering information). If the form submission is successful, I\'m r

Answer 1

The only way I know of to pass any data with a redirect is to add GET parameters to the URL you're passing in. To avoid XSS hacks you'd want to pass a specific constant like:

[current path you're passing in]?message=saved

And then process the message=saved parameter in the handler for the path you passed in.

A somewhat more complicated way would be not passing the data in the redirect, and instead using something like http://code.google.com/p/django-notify/ to store session-based data that is displayed to the user following the redirect.