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Setup Django CSRF token in JQuery AJAX requests
/**
* setup JQuery's AJAX methods to setup CSRF token in the request before sending it off.
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5100539/django-csrf-check-failing-with-an-ajax-post-request
*/
function getCookie(name)
{
var cookieValue = null;
if (document.cookie && document.cookie != '') {
var cookies = document.cookie.split(';');
for (var i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
var cookie = jQuery.trim(cookies[i]);
// Does this cookie string begin with the name we want?
if (cookie.substring(0, name.length + 1) == (name + '=')) {
cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookie.substring(name.length + 1));
break;
}
}
}
return cookieValue;
}
$.ajaxSetup({
beforeSend: function(xhr, settings) {
if (!(/^http:.*/.test(settings.url) || /^https:.*/.test(settings.url))) {
// Only send the token to relative URLs i.e. locally.
xhr.setRequestHeader("X-CSRFToken", getCookie('csrftoken'));
}
}
});
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