How do I raise a Response Forbidden in django

Question

I\'d like to do the following:

raise HttpResponseForbidden()

But I get the error:

exceptions must be old-style classes or d         


        

Answer 1

if you want to raise an exception you can use:

from django.core.exceptions import PermissionDenied

def your_view(...):
    raise PermissionDenied()

It is documented here :

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/views/#the-403-http-forbidden-view

As opposed to returing HttpResponseForbidden, raising PermissionDenied causes the error to be rendered using the 403.html template, or you can use middleware to show a custom "Forbidden" view.