I’m facing a strange issue with Django. I have set up a simple form in a template that submits to a view, but I’m not getting the expected 404 response. Instead, I’m being redirected to the URL http://localhost:8000/clear/ without seeing the 404 error.

Here is my setup:

Template:

<form method="post" action="{% url 'clear_chat' %}">
    {% csrf_token %}
    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-danger clear-button me-2">
        Clear Chat
    </button>
</form>

View:

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required

@login_required
def clear_chat(request):
    return HttpResponse("Invalid request method.", status=404)

Urls:

from django.urls import path
from .views import clear_chat

urlpatterns = [
    path('clear/', clear_chat, name='clear_chat'),
]

Instead of seeing the 404 response, I’m redirected to the URL http://localhost:8000/clear/ without any error message. I have no clue what is wrong with that code.