How to capture the current domain name in a Flask application
Published on Aug. 22, 2023, 12:16 p.m.
To capture the current domain name in a Flask application, you can use the request
object provided by Flask. Here’s an example:
from flask import Flask, request
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
def index():
domain_name = request.environ['HTTP_HOST']
return "The current domain is: {}".format(domain_name)
In this example, we define a route function called index
that retrieves the current domain name using request.environ['HTTP_HOST']
. We then use the retrieved domain name and return it as a string in the HTTP response.
Note that the environ
attribute of the request
object contains the WSGI environment dictionary, which is a standard way for web servers to pass information about an HTTP request to a web application. The HTTP_HOST
key in environ
contains the current domain name.