Hi everyone, I need some help. I just added a middleware to redirect the AnonymousUser to login page when they wants to buy a product.

I integrated stripe, when they click to checkout button they sent a post reqeust to /stripe/checkout/.

Here is my code:

# middleware
from django.shortcuts import redirect
from django.urls import reverse


class PaymentAuthenticationMiddleware:
    def __init__(self, get_response):
        self.get_response = get_response

    def __call__(self, request):
        protected_urls = [
            '/stripe/checkout/',
        ]

        if request.path == reverse('account_login'):
            return self.get_response(request)

        if not request.user.is_authenticated:
            for url in protected_urls:
                if request.path.startswith(url):
                    return redirect(reverse('account_login'))

        return self.get_response(request)


# settings
MIDDLEWARE = [
    "django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware",
    "django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware",
    "django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware",  # Locale
    "django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware",
    "django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware",
    "django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware",
    "django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware",
    "django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware",
    "allauth.account.middleware.AccountMiddleware",
    "_videos.middleware.MembershipAccessMiddleware",
    '_accounts.middlewares.anon_user_preferred_currency.PreferredCurrencyForAnonymousUserMiddleware',
    '_accounts.middlewares.authentication.PaymentAuthenticationMiddleware',
]

# nginx logs

024-09-20 21:52:50 192.168.65.1 - - [20/Sep/2024:19:52:50  0000] "POST /stripe/checkout/ HTTP/1.1" 302 0 "http://127.0.0.1/products/1/detail" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "-"
2024-09-20 21:52:50 192.168.65.1 - - [20/Sep/2024:19:52:50  0000] "GET /accounts/login/ HTTP/1.1" 200 6305 "http://127.0.0.1/products/1/detail" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "-"

When I debug, it successfully executes the redirect command, the response code is 302, however it does nothing.

I am confused, have anyone got similar thing before?

Edit: it is resolved, the problem was stripe checkout request was expecting a response back, however the middleware was cutting it. I decided to change logic to preventDefault for the button and redirect notauthenticated user to login page in the js script.