Can Flask's redirect be used without url_for?

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After following a tutorial, I have two views in my auth blueprint. I am confused over the different uses of redirect. The first view uses redirect(url_for()) but the second omits url_for. Why is this? Is it not enough to use just redirect('blueprint_name.route_name')?

return redirect(url_for('auth.unconfirmed'))

return redirect('main.index')

davidism · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-03 14:04:37Z

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The second one doesn't work as intended.

redirect takes a URL. url_for generates URLs. The second example redirects to the URL main.index, which doesn't exist. (And even if it did exist, it's unlikely that's what you wanted.)

answered Apr 3, 2017 at 14:04

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