Viewing deleted question from an anonymoususer internal error
 
   
  
 
 
When an AnonymousUser (like googlebot) or any not signed in user attempts to visit a link to a deleted post there is an internal error.
 
The error is an AttributeError in this file:
https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/blob/master/askbot/views/readers.py
on line 395
 
    try:
        show_comment = models.Post.objects.get_comments().get(id=show_comment)
    except models.Post.DoesNotExist:
        error_message = _(
            'Sorry, the comment you are looking for has been '
            'deleted and is no longer accessible'
        )
        request.user.message_set.create(message = error_message)
        return HttpResponseRedirect(question_post.thread.get_absolute_url())

 
the line request.user.message_set.create(message = error_message) will raise an AttributeError if request.user is AnonymousUser because it does not have the message_set property.
 
 
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 Jtrain 
 
 
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This does not affect anonymous users, because in our case anonymous user class is patched to have the message set. Do you have a traceback to look at? If you add your email address to the ADMINS in the settings.py you should be getting them by email.
 
 
 Evgeny's avatar Evgeny (12 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
I'm migrating the site to a newer askbot version. Perhaps the problem is already fixed in yours. Also I may have edited the code by hand at some point and introduced a bug. A fresh install should sort it out. Cheers.
 
 
 Jtrain's avatar Jtrain (12 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
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