forward_redirection.py

import httplib
import urlparse

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt


def format_header(header_name):
    if header_name.startswith("HTTP_"):
        header_name = header_name[5:]

    header_name = header_name.lower().split("_")
    return "-".join([x[0].upper() + x[1:] for x in header_name])


def forward_request(page_url=None):
    @csrf_exempt
    def view(request, *args, **kwargs):
        http_meta_headers = request.META.items()
        headers = dict([(format_header(header_name), header_value) 
                        for header_name, header_value in http_meta_headers])
        
        cookie_items = request.COOKIES.items()
        headers["Cookie"] = "; ".join([k + "=" + v for k, v in cookie_items])

        parse_result = urlparse.urlparse(page_url)
        domain = parse_result.netloc
        
        query = parse_result.query
        query_string = query and "?" + query or ''
        request_query_string = request.META.get('QUERY_STRING', '')

        if query_string:
            query_string += '&' + request_query_string
        else:
            query_string += '?' + request_query_string

        relative_url = parse_result.path + query_string
        
        connection = httplib.HTTPConnection(domain)   
        body = request.body
        connection.request(request.method, relative_url, body, headers)
        
        response = connection.getresponse()
        response_content = response.read()
        
        http_response = HttpResponse(response_content)
        http_response.status_code = response.status

        for k, v in response.msg.items():
            http_response[k] = v

        return http_response
    return view