I cannot put it in GET parameters because the server B can only be configured to look for a value either in the HTTP Header OR a cookie. (it's the Oracle Business Inteligence application, configured for Single sign on)

So even though it is not django related you seem to have a lot of knowledge so maybe you can offer a suggestion.
I have to redirect a user from my django application to this OBIEE server with either a special value in a cookie on in a header, what do you is the best (easiest) way to do it?

Thanks a lot.

I want from my django app on server A to redirect the user on server B. But server B only lets user in if there is a special header with a special value in the httprequest.

I'm not a django guru so I tried that way.
Obviously I was wrong.
Do you know a correct way?

thanks

Hello,

I want, from server A (where my django application sits), to request server B with a certain Http header.

I tried doing this in my view:
response=HttpResponseRedirect('http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx')
response["myheader"] = header_value
return response

Unfortunately, when I check the headers with the firefox extension livehttpheaders, I see that server B doesnt get my header:

POST /ssologin/ HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8778
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009073022 Firefox/3.0.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://localhost:8778/ssologin/
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 35
username=Administrator&password=sds
HTTP/1.x 302 FOUND
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:12:01 GMT
Server: WSGIServer/0.1 Python/2.3.7
MYHEADER: Administrator <--- my added header
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: http://SERVER_B:7777/index/
----------------------------------------------------------
http://SERVER_B:7777/index/ <-- server B

GET /analytics/saw.dll?dashboard HTTP/1.1
Host: http://SERVER_B:7777
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009073022 Firefox/3.0.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://localhost:8778/ssologin/
Cookie: nQuireID=thro3n86c29v612sbdav8ubt2egs30kqkk8r9mqzOr07UFe9W00
If-Modified-Since: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:06:59 GMT

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:11:57 GMT
Server: Oracle-Application-Server-10g/10.1.3.4.0 Oracle-HTTP-Server
Content-Length: 1685
Cache-Control: private
Last-Modified: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:11:57 GMT
Expires: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

Apparently the header is in the django response, but when the redirection occurs, it is not "passed" to the server B.

Any idea how I can do that? thanks

So do you know how I can do?
I have server A with a django app and server B with another app, looking for a specific cookie which I set in app A.
Do you know how i can set up a cookie from app A?
isnt there a work around? thanks

Hello,

I'm trying, from my django application, to create a cookie for a certain domain and then redirecting the user to that domain.

Here is the code I use:

def myredirectview(request)
response = HttpResponseRedirect('http://xx.xx.xx.xxxx:7777/subfolder/page.dll?info)
cookie_args = { 'value': 'testvalue', 'max_age': settings.SESSION_COOKIE_AGE, 'path': '/subfolder', 'secure': false }
response.set_cookie("USERNAME", **cookie_args)
return response

Now when I use the firefox extension "live http headers" I do see an instruction to create the cookie:
Set-Cookie: USERNAME=testvalue; Domain=xx.xx.xx.xxxx; Max-Age=1209600; Path=/subfolder/;

But when I check the cookies in firefox (Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> View cookies), my cookie doesn't appear.

Any idea why is welcome

thanks a lot