Get current url in Django View

Question

I need to grab the domain for the current page in my Django view. build_absolute_uri() works great to get the full path (http://www.domain.com/path/to/somewhere) but is there anyway to just simply get the http://www.domain.com?

Answer 1

You could try a combination of HttpRequest.get_host() to get the host:port ("www.domain.com") and HttpRequest.is_secure() to see if the request was made over http or https. This should allow you to reconstruct a URL like https://www.domain.com:8080