python - Jquery and Django CSRF Token

Question

I have 2 html Pages.

A Parent Page and a Child Page. The Child Page Contains a Submit Button that runs code on the Parent Page to submit an Ajax message.

I load the child page using $.load() method and then when the button is clicked it runs a $.ajax .POST Method. This post method only passes a JSON String to the Python Code.

When I do this on any browser except IE It works fine. However when I run this code in IE. I get Python / Django Errors about CSRF Tokens.

I Think the reason is because the child page is just a refresh of current page itself with the serverside code being run.

Does anyone know how I should go about getting this to work.

Cheers,

Answer 1

You are not passing the csrf token with POST. Try doing what I have done in data. That is to fetch the csrf token (or your own method) and pass it in your arguments.

$.ajax({
    url : url,
    type: "POST",
    data : {csrfmiddlewaretoken: document.getElementsByName('csrfmiddlewaretoken')[0].value},
    dataType : "json",
    success: function( data ){
        // do something
    }
});