I have setup django-ratelimit on my project and it appears to be working fine except that I can't get the ugly 403 error page removed when a visitor reaches their limit. I am trying to replace it as they say in their docs, which read:
There is optional middleware to use a custom view to handle
Ratelimited exceptions. To use it, add
ratelimit.middleware.RatelimitMiddleware to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES
(toward the bottom of the list) and set RATELIMIT_VIEW to the full
path of a view you want to use.
The view specified in RATELIMIT_VIEW will get two arguments, the
request object (after ratelimit processing) and the exception.
Here is what I have in my code:
SETTINGS:
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
# Uncomment the next line for simple clickjacking protection:
# 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
'ratelimit.middleware.RatelimitMiddleware',
)
RATELIMIT_VIEW = 'myapp.views.beenLimited'
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
# Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
'django.contrib.admin',
# Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
# 'django.contrib.admindocs',
'myapp',
'ratelimit',
)
RATELIMIT_USE_CACHE = 'default'
CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
'LOCATION': 'ratelimit-tests',
},
}
VIEWS:
from ratelimit.decorators import ratelimit
@ratelimit(method='POST', block=True, rate='10/m')
def pullFromDatabase(request):
...
def beenLimited(request):
message = "A few too many tries for today buddy. Please try again tomorrow."
HttpResponse(message)
What am I doing wrong?