Django test client gets 301 redirection when accessing url

Question

I am writing unittests for django views. I have observed that one of my views returns redirection code 301, which is not expected.
Here is my views.py mentioned earlier.

Answer 1

For me, the problem was that I mistakenly ran the tests with a setting.py file that had SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT = True. Changing to SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT = False solved the issue.

Another option is to use the client with secure=True, i.e.:

response = self.client.post('/query/', {}, secure=True)

which will make the client emulate an HTTPS request.

Answer 2

You have defined a url that matches /query/, but you are testing /query. Django is redirecting to the url with the trailing slash because APPEND_SLASH=True in your settings.

You probably want to change your test to:

response = self.client.post('/query/', {})