How do I get the different parts of a Flask request's url?

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Dogukan Tufekci picture Dogukan Tufekci · Apr 12, 2013 · Viewed 128.9k times · Source

I want to detect if the request came from the localhost:5000 or foo.herokuapp.com host and what path was requested. How do I get this information about a Flask request?

Answer

icecrime picture icecrime · Apr 12, 2013

You can examine the url through several Request fields:

Imagine your application is listening on the following application root:

http://www.example.com/myapplication

And a user requests the following URI:

http://www.example.com/myapplication/foo/page.html?x=y

In this case the values of the above mentioned attributes would be the following:

    path             /foo/page.html
    full_path        /foo/page.html?x=y
    script_root      /myapplication
    base_url         http://www.example.com/myapplication/foo/page.html
    url              http://www.example.com/myapplication/foo/page.html?x=y
    url_root         http://www.example.com/myapplication/

You can easily extract the host part with the appropriate splits.

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