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pistacchio
pistacchio

Reputation: 58863

Django: set session via Ajax

I'm trying to make an Ajax login form. I can get the user authenticated with django.contrib.auth.authenticate by passing it the username and password coming from the ajax post. But how can I them set an actual session and csrf so that in subsequent calls I can get the user in request.user?

Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1440

Answers (1)

Glyn Jackson
Glyn Jackson

Reputation: 8354

Add {% csrf_token %} as normal then add a pre-request callback function beforeSend on your AJAX POST etc:

  beforeSend: function (request) {
   request.setRequestHeader("X-CSRFToken",
       $('input[name="csrfmiddlewaretoken"]').val());
   },

If using an API Framework like TastyPie you have other options for authentication. See here: How can I login to django using tastypie

Upvotes: 4

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