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Mar 25, 2014

Use HTTP basic authentification to login into Django

Let's imagine you have a view somewhere on your website you want to password protect using your usual django login but you are too lazy to design a form to input your credentials. This makes sense if the view is for your own use and you don't need to have a fancy login page. In such a case the easiest and fastest way to proceed is to use ...

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Dec 17, 2013

Admin interface with foreign key on a very long list

If your application has a model with a ForeignKey on an other model which gets a lot of entries in the database, the auto-generated admin interface can become a nightmare to load. Django will render your ForeignKey using a select drop-down and with thousands of entries loading time and browser memory are in bad shape.

Solution is rather simple, add your ForeignKey in the raw_id_fields parameter in the Django admin ...

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Jun 17, 2013

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