How to redirect to external URL in Django?

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I think this should be easy, but I cannot figure it out. I am trying to write an opt-out view. I am receiving a get request. Through urls.py, I render my opt-out view. In this view, I save some parameters for the user in the database and then I want to redirect the user to an external URL. I tried:

return redirect('http://stackoverflow.com/')

from Django documentation. However, the optout view renders the training template instead of returning the redirect, though the parameters are saved in the database as expected. My code is as follows:

def optout(request):
    if (('REMOTE_USER' in request.META and request.META['REMOTE_USER'] != "") or 
        (request.session.get('userid', False) and request.session['userid'] != "")):
        if ('REMOTE_USER' in request.META and request.META['REMOTE_USER'] != ""):
            userid = request.META['REMOTE_USER']
        if (request.session.get('userid', False) and request.session['userid'] != ""):
            userid = request.session['userid']
        user = User.objects.get(username=userid)
        user.optout = True
        user.postpone = False
        user.save()
        return redirect('http://stackoverflow.com/')
    context = { 'userid': "" }
    return render(request, 'games/Training.html', context)

Any help is highly appreciated.

external-url redirect url django python
2 Answers

using class HttpResponseRedirect

from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect

def out(request):
    return HttpResponseRedirect("http://google.com")

Or:

using class HttpResponse

from django.http import HttpResponse

def out(request):
    response = HttpResponse("", status=302)
    response['Location'] = "scheme://host"
    return response

NOTE:

The last one is useful to redirect from a website to a mobile (Android/Iphone) app. Where location is scheme://host

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