Method Not Allowed

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Good day!

I'm getting this message when trying to run the code supplied in this video.

"Method Not Allowed The method is not allowed for the requested URL"

--app.py-- @app.route("/save", methods=["POST"]) def save(): return redirect(url_for("index"))

--index.html-- <form action="{{ url_for('save') }}" method="POST">

What am i doing wrong?

kindest regards Dan

Answer 1 · 2017-01-16T22:08:18Z

January 16, 2017 10:08pm

I am not sure if this answers your question. But, when I get that error it typically means I neglected to handle the GET method (rendering of the form) on the @app.route decorator. To see if this is the case, you could add in a tiny bit of code to print to the console if save() is called with a GET.

from flask import request

@app.route('/save', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def save():
    if request.method == 'POST':
        clean_and_validate_the_data() # some functional code you need to handle POST data
        save_the_data() # some functional code to save our data 
    else:
        print "DEBUG: save() GET method was called"  # some message which echos to the console or throw a custom error
    return redirect(url_for("index"))

Answer 2 · 2017-08-20T17:39:48Z

August 20, 2017 5:39pm

While I agree that the method above works, can someone provide more of an explanation as to why this is needed? My understanding is that the form is calling the GET method before the POST method which would return "Method Not Allowed" because GET wasn't listed as a method in the @app.route decorator. Why was this not the case in this lesson's video? The example provided by Kenneth Love does not handle the GET method and yet does not cause any errors. For reference, I'm developing locally, not using workspaces. Thanks!

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