Remove the comment variable from URL after posting (django)?

Question

When I post a comment with the django's comment framework, I have a hidden next value set in hopes that once the comment is posted, it will bring the user to view their own comment. The next field renders like this:

<input type="hidden" name="next" value="http://example.com/item/1#c23" />

However, when a comment is posted, django is adding a ?c=23 to the end of the url so the fully formed url that the user is redirected to becomes:

http://example.com/item/1#c23?c=23

In Firefox and Safari (brief testing) this prevents the page from moving down to the correct id=23 and just shows the very top of the page (I want it to show the just posted comment). Removing the ?c=23 fixes the problem (by hand) but I don't know how to tell Django to stop adding it.

Ideas?

Answer 1

This jQuery line allows you to change the current URL:

$(this).attr("href", "NEW_URL");

Replace NEW_URL by the new URL. You can split http://example.com/item/1#c23?c=23 using the question mark and then use the first part of the array as the new URL.

Answer 2

Not a solution to your problem but just wanted to add that this is a bug in Django. It would be great if you could open a ticket for it.

For 1.1, it seems ticket 10585 took care of already existing query strings in the next value. That is, if next was http://example.com/item/1?a=1 then it became http://example.com/item/1?a=1?c=23 after a comment was posted. The code changes look pretty simple so you might even be able to provide a patch yourself.

Good luck!