I want to set a cookie inside a view and then have that view render a template. As I understand it, this is the way to set a cookie:
def index(request):
response = HttpResponse('blah')
response.set_cookie('id', 1)
return response
However, I want to set a cookie and then render a template, something like this:
def index(request, template):
response_obj = HttpResponse('blah')
response_obj.set_cookie('id', 1)
return render_to_response(template, response_obj) # <= Doesn't work
The template will contain links that when clicked will execute other views that check for the cookie I'm setting. What's the correct way to do what I showed in the second example above? I understand that I could create a string that contains all the HTML for my template and pass that string as the argument to HttpResponse but that seems really ugly. Isn't there a better way to do this? Thanks.