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2025-02-09
At Dryft I have the luxury of a small production database, so I can mirror prod to my local dev machine in ~3 minutes. I use this a lot to get quick local reproduction of issues. I used to copy-paste the relevant URL part to my local dev and felt quite happy with it. Then I realized that I could just paste the entire URL after http://localhost:8000/! My browser autocompleted that part anyway, and URLs like http://localhost:8000/https://[...] are obviously invalid for normal uses cases, so can cleanly be made to just strip out the domain part and redirect.
This is the middleware I came up with to do this:
def domain_strip_middleware(get_response):
def domain_strip_middleware_inner(request):
if not settings.DEBUG:
return get_response(request)
m = re.match(
r'/https?://(?P<domain>[^/]*)(?P<path>/.*)',
request.get_full_path()
)
if m:
return HttpResponseRedirect(m.groupdict()['path'])
return get_response(request)
return domain_strip_middleware_inner