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Preventing Form Re-submission
After a successful POST request, you should always return a redirect. This prevents the browser from prompting the user to resubmit the data if they refresh the page.
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from django.shortcuts import redirectdef my_view(request):if request.method == 'POST':# Process form data herereturn redirect('success_url')
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from django.shortcuts import redirect
Imports the helper function to redirect users to a different URL.
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return redirect('success_url')
Sends the user to the success page after the POST data is processed.