Friendly 400 page that shows the error, even when DEBUG=False

when people run into ALLOWED_HOSTS troubles, they should get info on-screen ASAP

bugsink/context_processors.py

@@ -83,5 +83,6 @@ def useful_settings_processor(request):
 
 def logged_in_user_processor(request):
     return {
-        'logged_in_user': request.user,
+        # getattr, because if there's a failure "very early" in the request handling, we don't have an AnonymousUser
+        'logged_in_user': getattr(request, "user", None),
     }

bugsink/urls.py

@@ -65,4 +65,5 @@ if settings.DEBUG:
     ]
 
 
+handler400 = "bugsink.views.bad_request"
 handler500 = "bugsink.views.server_error"

bugsink/views.py

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 import sys
 
-from django.http import HttpResponseServerError
+from django.http import HttpResponseServerError, HttpResponseBadRequest
 from django.template import TemplateDoesNotExist, loader
 from django.views.decorators.csrf import requires_csrf_token
-from django.views.defaults import ERROR_500_TEMPLATE_NAME, ERROR_PAGE_TEMPLATE
+from django.views.defaults import ERROR_500_TEMPLATE_NAME, ERROR_PAGE_TEMPLATE, ERROR_400_TEMPLATE_NAME
 from django.shortcuts import redirect
 from django.conf import settings
 
@@ -116,6 +116,25 @@ def settings_view(request):
     })
 
 
+@requires_csrf_token
+def bad_request(request, exception, template_name=ERROR_400_TEMPLATE_NAME):
+    # verbatim copy of Django's default bad_request view, but with "exception" in the context
+    # doing this for any-old-Django-site is probably a bad idea, but here the security/convenience tradeoff is fine,
+    # especially because we only show str(exception) in the template.
+    try:
+        template = loader.get_template(template_name)
+    except TemplateDoesNotExist:
+        if template_name != ERROR_400_TEMPLATE_NAME:
+            # Reraise if it's a missing custom template.
+            raise
+        return HttpResponseBadRequest(
+            ERROR_PAGE_TEMPLATE % {"title": "Bad Request (400)", "details": ""},
+        )
+
+    _, exception, _ = sys.exc_info()
+    return HttpResponseBadRequest(template.render({"exception": exception}, request))
+
+
 @requires_csrf_token
 def server_error(request, template_name=ERROR_500_TEMPLATE_NAME):
     # verbatim copy of Django's default server_error view, but with "exception" in the context

projects/context_processors.py

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 def user_projects_processor(request):
-    if not request.user.is_authenticated:
+    if not hasattr(request, "user"):
-        return {
+        # check, because if there's a failure "very early" in the request handling, we don't have an AnonymousUser
-            'user_projects': [],
+        return {"user_projects": []}
-        }
 
-    return {
+    if not request.user.is_authenticated:
-        'user_projects': request.user.project_set.all(),
+        return {'user_projects': []}
-    }
+
+    return {'user_projects': request.user.project_set.all()}

templates/400.html

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{% extends "bare_base.html" %}
+
+{% block title %}400 Server Error{% endblock %}
+
+{% block content %}
+<div class="m-4">
+<h1 class="text-4xl mt-4 font-bold">400 Server Error</h1>
+
+<div class="pt-2">
+    {{ exception }}
+</div>
+{% endblock %}