Using request.POST.copy() to get hidden field in html template

[jim]

I'm trying to use request.POST.copy() to get a hidden field in an html
template. The hidden field looks like:

<input type="hidden" value="{% if post.url %}{{ post.url }}{%else
%}""{%endif%}" name="url" />

I also tried:

<input type="hidden" value="{{ post.url }}" name="url" />

In my view.py I have:

postdata = request.POST.copy()
url = str(postdata.get('url'))

The value of url is None. Is there an additional trick to this?

Thanks
Jim

[DrBloodmoney]

1. Make sure that the hidden field is inside of the <form></form> tags.

2. You shouldn't need to copy the QueryDict to get the value:

url = request.POST.get('url', 'default') # or request.POST['url']