Middlware to allow's your django server to respond appropriately to cross domain XHR (postMessage html5 API).

django-crossdomainxhr-middleware.py

import re

from django.utils.text import compress_string
from django.utils.cache import patch_vary_headers

from django import http

from django.conf import settings 

XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_ORIGINS = getattr(settings, 'XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_ORIGINS', '*')
XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_METHODS = getattr(settings, 'XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_METHODS', ['POST','GET','OPTIONS', 'PUT', 'DELETE'])


class XsSharing(object):
    """
        This middleware allows cross-domain XHR using the html5 postMessage API.
         

        Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://foo.example
        Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE
    """
    def process_request(self, request):

        if 'HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_METHOD' in request.META:
            response = http.HttpResponse()
            response['Access-Control-Allow-Origin']  = XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_ORIGINS 
            response['Access-Control-Allow-Methods'] = ",".join( XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_METHODS ) 
            
            return response

        return None

    def process_response(self, request, response):
        # Avoid unnecessary work
        if response.has_header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin'):
            return response

        response['Access-Control-Allow-Origin']  = XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_ORIGINS 
        response['Access-Control-Allow-Methods'] = ",".join( XS_SHARING_ALLOWED_METHODS )

        return response