Add request header before redirection

Question

I am retrofitting a Django web app for a new client. To this end I have added a url pattern that redirects requests from new client to old url patterns.

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Answer 1

Django FBV's should return an HTTPResponse object (or subclass thereof). The Django shorcut redirect returns HttpResponseRedirect which is a subclass of HTTPResponse. This means we can set the headers for redirect() the way we will set headers for a typical HTTPResponse object. We can do that like so:

def my_view(request):
    response = redirect('http://www.gamefaqs.com')
    # Set 'Test' header and then delete
    response['Test'] = 'Test'
    del response['Test']
    # Set 'Test Header' header
    response['Test Header'] = 'Test Header'
    return response

Relevant docs here and here.