What the difference between using Django redirect and HttpResponseRedirect?

Question

Which is it better to use generally?

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/shortcuts/#redirect

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev

Answer 1

There is a difference between the two:

In the case of HttpResponseRedirect the first argument can only be a url.

redirect which will ultimately return a HttpResponseRedirect can accept a model, view, or url as it's "to" argument. So it is a little more flexible in what it can "redirect" to.

I also like how redirect is shorter. So I'd use redirect over HttpResponseRedirect.

Both are fine to use though.