@csrf_exempt
def proxy_request(request, **kwargs):

    # proxy sid
    try:
        cookie_name = settings.REVPROXY_COOKIE
    except AttributeError:
        cookie_name = kwargs.get("cookie", "PROXY_SID")

    sid = request.COOKIES.get(cookie_name)

    # create a proxy session id only if it's needed so someone using
    # a cookie based authentification can just reuse this session id.
    # It can also be the session id from the session middleware.
    if not sid:
        sid = uuid.uuid4().hex
    kwargs['proxy_sid'] = sid

    
    # install request filters
    filters_classes = kwargs.get('filters')
    if not filters_classes:
        filters = None 
    else:
        filters = []
        for fclass in filters_classes:
            # add filter instance
            fobj = fclass(request, **kwargs)
            filters.append(fobj)

            # eventually rewrite request and kwargs
            if hasattr(fobj, 'setup'):
                ret = fobj.setup()
                if ret is not None:
                    try:
                        request, extra_kwargs = ret
                    except ValueError:
                        extra_kwargs = ret

                    if extra_kwargs is not None:
                        kwargs.update(extra_kwargs)
    

    destination = kwargs.get('destination')
    prefix = kwargs.get('prefix')
    headers = kwargs.get('headers')
    no_redirect = kwargs.get('no_redirect', False)
    decompress = kwargs.get("decompress", False)
    path = kwargs.get("path")
    proxy_sid = kwargs.get('proxy_sid')

    if path is None:
        path = request.path
        if prefix is not None and prefix:
            path = path.split(prefix, 1)[1]
    else:
        if not path and not request.path.endswith("/"):
            if not no_redirect:
                qs = request.META["QUERY_STRING"]
                redirect_url = "%s/" % request.path
                if qs:
                    redirect_url = "%s?%s" % (redirect_url, qs)
                return HttpResponsePermanentRedirect(redirect_url)

        if path:
            prefix = request.path.rsplit(path, 1)[0]

    if not path.startswith("/"):
        path = "/%s" % path 

    base_url = absolute_uri(request, destination)
    proxied_url = ""
    if not path:
        proxied_url = "%s/" % base_url
    else:
        proxied_url = "%s%s" % (base_url, path)

    qs = request.META.get("QUERY_STRING")
    if qs is not None and qs:
        proxied_url = "%s?%s" % (proxied_url, qs)

    # fix headers@
    headers = headers or {}
    for key, value in request.META.iteritems():
        if key.startswith('HTTP_'):
            key = header_name(key)
            
        elif key in ('CONTENT_TYPE', 'CONTENT_LENGTH'):
            key = key.replace('_', '-')
            if not value: continue
        else:
            continue
    
        # rewrite location
        if key.lower() != "host" and not is_hop_by_hop(key):
            headers[key] = value

    # we forward for
    headers["X-Forwarded-For"] = request.get_host()

    # django doesn't understand PUT sadly
    method = request.method.upper()
    if method == "PUT":
        coerce_put_post(request)
       
    # do the request
    try:
        resp = restkit.request(proxied_url, method=method,
                body=request.raw_post_data, headers=headers,
                follow_redirect=True,
                decompress=decompress,
                filters=filters)
    except restkit.RequestFailed, e:
        msg = getattr(e, 'msg', '')
    
        if e.status_int >= 100:
            resp = e.response
            body = msg
        else:
            return http.HttpResponseBadRequest(msg)

    body =  resp.tee()
    response = HttpResponse(body, status=resp.status_int)


    # fix response headers
    for k, v in resp.headers.items():
        kl = k.lower()
        if is_hop_by_hop(kl):
            continue
        if kl  == "location":
            response[k] = rewrite_location(request, prefix, v)
        elif kl == "content-encoding":
            if not decompress:
                response[k] = v
        else:
            response[k] = v
    
    # save the session 
    response.set_cookie(
            cookie_name, 
            sid,
            max_age=None,
            expires=None,
            domain=settings.SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN,
            path=settings.SESSION_COOKIE_PATH,
            secure=True)

    return response
generic view to proxy a request.
dataset/ETHPy150Open benoitc/dj-revproxy/revproxy/proxy.py/proxy_request