Django Set HTTP Error manually

[johnny]

What I want to do is set HTTP Error manually in my view, when a
request is made to certain url, without post data.

At a particular url, my view is looking for XML document to be sent
over http, by post. If a request come in without post, I want to
raise an error "405 Method Not Allowed". How do I do this?

Thank you

[James Bennett]

On 4/9/07, johnny <ramp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> At a particular url, my view is looking for XML document to be sent
> over http, by post. If a request come in without post, I want to
> raise an error "405 Method Not Allowed". How do I do this?

response = HttpResponse('some output here')
response.status_code = 405
return response

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[Ivan Sagalaev]

In fact 405 doesn't mean "post without data", you should answer 405 if
you receive anything except 'POST' in HTTP method. This is done by a not
very well-known decorator:

from django.views.decorators.http import require_http_methods

@require_http_methods('POST')
def your_view(request):
...

I think your app should react on an empty POST as it does on any invalid
XML document. I mean just get request.raw_post_data and send it to a
parser as you (presumably) do now. It doesn't matter if it has '' or
'some garbage' there.

[Jesse Lovelace]

Or:

from django.http import HttpResponseNotAllowed

return HttpResponseNotAllowed()