Django request to find previous referrer

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I'm passing the request to the template page.In django template how to pass the last page from which the new page was initialised.Instead of history.go(-1) i need to use this

 {{request.http referer}} ??

 <input type="button" value="Back" /> //onlcick how to call the referrer

Daniel DiPaolo · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-10T07:12:19.483

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That piece of information is in the META attribute of the HttpRequest, and it's the HTTP_REFERER (sic) key, so I believe you should be able to access it in the template as:

{{ request.META.HTTP_REFERER }}

Works in the shell:

>>> from django.template import *
>>> t = Template("{{ request.META.HTTP_REFERER }}")
>>> from django.http import HttpRequest
>>> req = HttpRequest()
>>> req.META
{}
>>> req.META['HTTP_REFERER'] = 'google.com'
>>> c = Context({'request': req})
>>> t.render(c)
u'google.com'

edited Dec 10 '10 at 07:12

answered Dec 10 '10 at 07:06

Daniel DiPaolo

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Also u r saying that would work.. – Rajeev Dec 10 '10 at 09:45

score 26 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 12 '10 at 13:08

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Rajeev, this is what I do:

 <a href="{{ request.META.HTTP_REFERER }}">Referring Page</a>

answered Dec 12 '10 at 13:08

Jeff Bauer

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friend, I want to implement it on the item selection page(which is a bootstrap modal). when the user wants to add a product to his wishlist, I want a link to the products page and a back button to the wishlist page ( which is a form in that BS modal). I used it, but it takes me back to the page that contains the modal, Can I go back to the page with that modal open and have the same values in the input boxes which is in it? – Shahriar.M Dec 24 '20 at 14:41

score 10 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 05 '21 at 22:41

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This worked for me request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER') With this you won't get an error if doesn't exist, you will get None instead

answered Feb 05 '21 at 22:41

Oscar Garcia - OOSS

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 13 '22 at 19:49

With 2 lines of code below, I could get referer in overridden get_queryset() in Django Admin:

# "store/admin.py"

from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Person

@admin.register(Person)
class PersonAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
        
    def get_queryset(self, request):

        print(request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER')) # Here
        print(request.headers['Referer']) # Here
        
        return super().get_queryset(request)

Output on console:

http://localhost:8000/admin/store/person/ # request.headers['Referer']
http://localhost:8000/admin/store/person/ # request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER')

Django request to find previous referrer

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