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Igor Protsenko
15,651 PointsExclusivity
Can you please clarify what does request.GET.get('q') means?
Jeff Morrison
5,917 PointsJeff Morrison
5,917 PointsIn handling HTTP requests, the
python request.GET.get('q')
parses the request and handles requests.request: the request handles the incoming request from the website GET: this is the method on the request. If a user loads the website via GET, then this will work get: this is a get method. It will 'get' the search parameters from the URL
This will work on: http://((website}}/?q=Query the request.GET.get('q') will return 'Query'
If you POST to that page, it won't do anything. If you just go to http://{{website}}, it won't do anything (no parameter to get).