Django request variables, these lines assume you are inside a view according to:

def yourview(request, ...):

This page is based on the Request and response objects page in the Django 1 documentation.

HttpRequest attributes

HttpRequest.META

A standard Python dictionary containing all available HTTP headers. Available headers depend on the client and server, but here are some examples:

request.META['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] % /var/www/emptyrequest.META['GATEWAY_INTERFACE'] % CGI/1.1request.META['HTTP_ACCEPT'] % */*request.META['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'] % gzip, deflaterequest.META['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] % zh-cnrequest.META['HTTP_CONNECTION'] % Keep-Aliverequest.META['HTTP_HOST'] % devhttp.comrequest.META['HTTP_REFERER'] % http://www.douban.com/group/topic/12690846/request.META['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] % Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; 360SE)request.META['mod_wsgi.application_group'] % www.devhttp.com|request.META['mod_wsgi.callable_object'] % applicationrequest.META['mod_wsgi.listener_host'] % request.META['mod_wsgi.listener_port'] % 80request.META['mod_wsgi.process_group'] % request.META['mod_wsgi.reload_mechanism'] % 0request.META['mod_wsgi.script_reloading'] % 1request.META['mod_wsgi.version'] % (2, 8)request.META['PATH'] % /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/binrequest.META['PATH_INFO'] % /request/djangorequest.META['PATH_TRANSLATED'] % /var/www/vhost/devhttp.com/devhttp/django.wsgi/request/djangorequest.META['QUERY_STRING'] % request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'] % 114.247.50.2request.META['REMOTE_PORT'] % 14958request.META['REQUEST_METHOD'] % GETrequest.META['REQUEST_URI'] % /request/djangorequest.META['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] % /var/www/vhost/devhttp.com/devhttp/django.wsgirequest.META['SCRIPT_NAME'] % request.META['SERVER_ADDR'] % 178.77.77.209request.META['SERVER_ADMIN'] % [no address given]request.META['SERVER_NAME'] % devhttp.comrequest.META['SERVER_PORT'] % 80request.META['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] % HTTP/1.1request.META['SERVER_SIGNATURE'] % request.META['SERVER_SOFTWARE'] % Apacherequest.META['wsgi.errors'] % 
    
     request.META['wsgi.file_wrapper'] % 
     
      request.META['wsgi.input'] % 
      
       request.META['wsgi.multiprocess'] % Truerequest.META['wsgi.multithread'] % Falserequest.META['wsgi.run_once'] % Falserequest.META['wsgi.url_scheme'] % httprequest.META['wsgi.version'] % (1, 0)
      
     
    

request.user

This django.contrib.auth.models.User object is only interesting if you have authentication enabled. This site doesn't.

request.session

The session contains a key, randomly generated and repeated if the user is able to save the session information.

request.session['random'] = 469607171413

HttpRequest methods