The problem is you have the form's action set to / instead of /login/
HiI searched for how to create a login page in tornado and I found following in the stackoverflow.I tried to execute the code by I am not able to set the route properly.I am using following for the login.html<html><head></head><body><form method="post" action="/" name="aform" target="_top">Login:<input type="text" name="login">Password:<input type="password" name="password"><input type="submit" value="Enter"></form></body></html>I am using following for the tornado server fileimport osimport base64import uuidimport tornado.webimport tornado.httpserverimport tornado.ioloopROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) + os.sepclass BaseHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):def get_login_url(self):return "/login"def get_current_user(self):user_json = self.get_secure_cookie("user")if user_json:return tornado.escape.json_decode(user_json)else:return Noneclass LoginHandler(BaseHandler):def get(self):self.render("login.html", next=self.get_argument("next","/"))def post(self):username = self.get_argument("login", "")password = self.get_argument("password", "")print usernameprint passwordif True:self.redirect(self.get_argument("next", u"/"))else:self.redirect("/login")def set_current_user(self, user):if user:self.set_secure_cookie("user", tornado.escape.json_encode(user))else:self.clear_cookie("user")class LogoutHandler(BaseHandler):def get(self):self.clear_cookie("user")self.redirect(u"/login")class Index(BaseHandler):def get(self):self.write("hello world")if __name__ == "__main__":app = tornado.web.Application(handlers=[(r'/', Index),(r'/login/', LoginHandler),(r'/logout/', LogoutHandler),],cookie_secret = base64.b64encode(uuid.uuid4().bytes + uuid.uuid4().bytes),template_path = ROOT + 'template',static_path = ROOT + 'static')http_server = tornado.httpserver.HTTPServer(app)http_server.listen(8888)tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()Thanks for any help.