Fixed django#19230 -- Extended the handler403 documentation.

Added a paragraph on how to use the PermissionDenied exception to create a 403 response and use handler403.

Author: keimlink

docs/topics/http/views.txt

@@ -209,6 +209,17 @@ This view loads and renders the template ``403.html`` in your root template
 directory, or if this file does not exist, instead serves the text
 "403 Forbidden", as per :rfc:`2616` (the HTTP 1.1 Specification).
 
+``django.views.defaults.permission_denied`` is triggered by a
+:exc:`~django.core.exceptions.PermissionDenied` exception. To deny access in a
+view you can use code like this::
+
+ from django.core.exceptions import PermissionDenied
+
+ def edit(request, pk):
+ if not request.user.is_staff:
+ raise PermissionDenied
+ # ...
+
 It is possible to override ``django.views.defaults.permission_denied`` in the
 same way you can for the 404 and 500 views by specifying a ``handler403`` in
 your URLconf::