Django custom handler404 shows 404 but gives header 200

Question

I made a custom handler404 for a authenticated Django website to avoid information leakage.

def check_logged_in_404(request):
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Answer 1

You can use render method:

from django.shortcuts import render

Returns a HttpResponse whose content is filled with the result of calling django.template.loader.render_to_string() with the passed arguments.

Uses a RequestContext by default.

Example:

return render(request, '404.html', status=404)

And with keywords:

return render(request, '404.html', {'data': 'some data'}, status=404)