I want to implement the Cognito Hosted UI for some users in my Django application.
I have successfully been able to redirect the users to the desired url for authentication using the following:
return redirect(https://....amazoncognito.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=....redirect_uri=localhost).
I am able to successfully authenticate and redirect back to my localhost where the url in the browser is localhost/?code=xyz. I do not understand how I can retrieve this code xyz back in python to perform next steps? I see that in the Django Terminal that it reads the required code. This is what the terminal shows:
[04/May/2022 16:08:15] "POST /login HTTP/1.1" 302 0
[04/May/2022 12:09:04] "GET /?code=xyz HTTP/1.1" 200 8737
I just do not know how to get this code xyz in my views.py so that I can continue the login. I tried variations of request.GET that did not work.
Any help is appreciated!!
I just figured it out 5 days later (what 5 days of not looking at your code can do!)
request.GET.get(‘code’) gives back the 'xyz' that shows up in the url in the browser.
How to get the code returned by Cognito Hosted UI Autentication in Django?