Why is this acting like a permanent redirect?

[Robert F]

I have a Django view that I redirect a user to after they login:

# settings.py

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = 'login-redirect'

# account/urls.py

        urlpatterns = [

            path('', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),

            ...

        ]

# home/views.py

from account.models import Member

def login_redirect(request):

"""

Redirect member to appropriate page when they log in.

"""

member = Member.objects.get(user__id__exact=request.user.id)

if member.has_profile:

return redirect('homepage', member_id=member.id)

else:

return redirect('profile-create', member_id=member.id)

If I start Django's development server and execute this code when the condition ```member.has_profile = True```, Django redirects me to the homepage view as expected.  But if I then go into the database and set has_profile to False, restart the web server, and execute code again, my website acts as if the code isn't executed.  Instead, I'm sent immediately to the homepage view again.  I can see this by looking at the terminal console:

    [19/Feb/2021 ...] "GET /account/login/ HTTP/1.0" 200 4268       # I'm using Django's default login method

    [19/Feb/2021 ...] "POST /account/login HTTP/1.0" 302 0

    [19/Feb/2021 ...] "GET /home/login_redirect/ HTTP/1.0" 200 4599

This happens even though I am restarting the server and clearing my browser's cache.  In fact, I can edit the login_redirect function so that it only contains a single line ```pass``` and I'm still sent to the homepage after logging in.

def login_redirect(request):

pass

Why is this happening?  I'm not doing a permanent redirect.  And should I not be using the redirect method in my login_redirect method to send a user to a different page depending on whether or not they have a profile?

[David Nugent]

Hi Robert,

To point out the most likely cause of the issue: LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL is a url, not a route name.

Possibly could use a reverse_lazy('login-redirect') here after import django.urls, but - untested.

Regards,

David

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[Robert F]

Thanks David.  I'll give this a try.