How to raise a 410 error in Django

Question

I\'d like to return 410 errors at for some of my Django pages instead of returning 404s. Basically, instead of calling raise Http404(\'some error message\'), I woul

Answer 1

Return a HttpResponseGone, a subclass of HttpResponse, in your view handler.

Answer 2

from django.http import HttpResponse
return HttpResponse(status=410)

Answer 3

Django does not include a mechanism for this because gone should be normal workflow, not an error condition, but if you want to not treat it as a return response, and as an exception, just implement a middleware.

class MyGoneMiddleware(object):
    def process_exception(self, request, exception):
        if isinstance(exception, Http410):
            return HttpResponseGone("Gone!")
        return None