django test client always returning 301

django django-testing mezzanine cartridge

Standardly I've figured out the answer while writing the question... hopefully this will be useful to somebody else!

Somehow the SSL config snuck into my dev settings. In particular I've had the following

SSL_FORCE_HOST = 'example.com'

enabled, which seems to be a problem - after disabling it in dev, the problem disappeared.

django django-testing mezzanine cartridge

There is also a secure flag that you can set to solve the issue with redirection to https. In my case I tested post:

response = self.client.post(url, data, secure=True)

but client.get() also has this flag.

django django-testing mezzanine cartridge

Check that it is running the test with debug enabled in settings.py. Running with debug disabled can causes it to redirect.

DEBUG = True

I encountered this in a code base that was modified to disable debug by default.

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