Django 1.7 google oauth2 token validation failure

Question

I\'m trying to get through the process of authenticating a Google token for accessing a user\'s calendar within a Django application. Although I\'ve followed several indications

Answer 1

It could be a unicode issue with request.REQUEST['state']. Try putting str() around it, i.e. str(request.REQUEST['state']).

Answer 2

I have struggled exact the same issue for several hours, and I figured out the solution of which @Ryan Spaulding and @Hans Z answered. It works!

This is due to the fact Django 1.7 returns a unicode object for the state variable above using request.REQUEST. I was previously using Django 1.6 which used to return a string.

One can find more detail here. https://github.com/google/google-api-python-client/issues/58 I wrote this post for future reference.

if not xsrfutil.validate_token(
    settings.SECRET_KEY, 
    str(request.REQUEST['state']), 
    request.user):
return HttpResponseBadRequest()