[Fixed]-Django, accessing meta properties outside of the page that generates them

You’ve answered your question.

Use a session that will persist the value (as long as the session is active).

request.session['auth_type'] = 'SecureID'

Then you can always make a decision based on the session value you stored earlier.

if request.session['auth_type'] == 'SecureID':
    # do two factor auth stuff
    pass
else:
    # do normal stuff
    pass