error500 default view don't include STATIC_URL

[hugo.arregui@…]

Hi,

i was playing with this behaviour when I found this:

​https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/views/defaults.py#L41

error500 is the only default view which doesn't use RequestContext, then, STATIC_URL is not included.

Is there a reason for that?

Thanks.

[anonymous]

A friend point me to: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5617

But this is a problem.. maybe the default view could insert STATIC_URL from settings without RequestContext?

[Mark Lavin]

The reason why it does not use a RequestContext is already documented ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/http/views/#the-500-server-error-view

The default 500 view passes no variables to this template and is rendered with an empty Context to lessen the chance of additional errors.

You can still use the get_static_prefix ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/templates/builtins/#get-static-prefix or static ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/howto/static-files/#with-a-template-tag to reference static files without a RequestContext.

[Mike Lissner]

Is it just me, or should we try to document this better? Maybe add it as part of the static configuration page? It's a big gotcha for somebody that's made their 500 page, and has it depend on their base template, where the {{ STATIC_URL }} will work the rest of the time.