View loaded twice / Database entry saved twice

[James Verran]

Hi there, I'm trying to capture all url path data. (Except admin, and a couple other paths.)

At the end of my urls.py file, I'm using r'^(.*)$'... On my associated view, I make a simple entry into a database - ie: Test(path=capturedpath).save() 

The problem: my database entry is saved twice! Or rather, my view is being loaded twice. I added a global variable to check- if not globals()['already_saved']: Test(path=capturedpath).save() 

If I adjust the path: r'^test/(.*)$'  all works as expected (here my url would be 'mysite.com/test/url/data/to/capture'.)

I'm using django 1.4. Any help/thoughts/suggestions would be much appreciated. 

Thanks!

[Jeff Tchang]

Is it possible you are testing using a browser and it is doing a request for the page and for favicon.ico? That would end up being 2 requests. You can use something like Chrome Developer Tools or Firebug to see.

-Jeff

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[Martin J. Laubach]

  Also, you should really only do saves on a POST request, never on GETs.

        mjl

[James Verran]

Yes, I think you are right! That would explain the strange behaviour - even in the admin section the page is being loaded. Thank you!