A debug view for seeing the URL params

lms/djangoapps/debug/views.py

@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@
 import pprint
 import traceback
 
-from django.http import Http404
+from django.http import Http404, HttpResponse
 from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
+from django.utils.html import escape
+
 from django_future.csrf import ensure_csrf_cookie
 from edxmako.shortcuts import render_to_response
 
 from codejail.safe_exec import safe_exec
 
-from util.json_request import JsonResponse
-
 
 @login_required
 @ensure_csrf_cookie
@@ -36,9 +36,10 @@ def run_python(request):
 
 @login_required
 def show_parameters(request):
-    """A page that shows what GET parameters were on the URL."""
-    params = {
-        'get': dict(request.GET),
-        'post': dict(request.POST),
-    }
-    return JsonResponse(params)
+    """A page that shows what parameters were on the URL and post."""
+    html = []
+    for name, value in sorted(request.GET.items()):
+        html.append(escape("GET {}: {!r}".format(name, value)))
+    for name, value in sorted(request.POST.items()):
+        html.append(escape("POST {}: {!r}".format(name, value)))
+    return HttpResponse("\n".join("<p>{}</p>".format(h) for h in html))

lms/urls.py

@@ -478,11 +478,11 @@ urlpatterns += (
 
 if settings.FEATURES.get('ENABLE_DEBUG_RUN_PYTHON'):
     urlpatterns += (
-        url(r'^debug/run_python', 'debug.views.run_python'),
+        url(r'^debug/run_python$', 'debug.views.run_python'),
     )
 
 urlpatterns += (
-    url(r'^debug/show_parameters', 'debug.views.show_parameters'),
+    url(r'^debug/show_parameters$', 'debug.views.show_parameters'),
 )
 
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