How do I return a 401 Unauthorized in Django?

Question

Instead of doing this:

res = HttpResponse("Unauthorized") res.status_code = 401 return res 

Is there a way to do it without typing it every time?

Answer 1

I know this is an old one, but it's the top Google result for "django 401", so I thought I'd point this out...

Assuming you've already imported django.http.HttpResponse, you can do it in a single line:

return HttpResponse('Unauthorized', status=401) 

The 'Unauthorized' string is optional. Easy.

Answer 2

class HttpResponseUnauthorized(HttpResponse):     status_code = 401  ... return HttpResponseUnauthorized() 

Normally, you should set the instance in __init__ or you end up with class variables that are shared between all instances. However, Django does this for you already:

class HttpResponse(object):     """A basic HTTP response, with content and dictionary-accessed headers."""      status_code = 200      def __init__(self, content='', mimetype=None, status=None,             content_type=None):         # snip...         if status:             self.status_code = status 

(see the Django code in context)