Django CSRF check failing with an Ajax POST request

Question

I could use some help complying with Django\'s CSRF protection mechanism via my AJAX post. I\'ve followed the directions here:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/r

Answer 1

Non-jquery answer:

var csrfcookie = function() {
    var cookieValue = null,
        name = 'csrftoken';
    if (document.cookie && document.cookie !== '') {
        var cookies = document.cookie.split(';');
        for (var i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
            var cookie = cookies[i].trim();
            if (cookie.substring(0, name.length + 1) == (name + '=')) {
                cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookie.substring(name.length + 1));
                break;
            }
        }
    }
    return cookieValue;
};

usage:

var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('POST', url, true);
request.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8');
request.setRequestHeader('X-CSRFToken', csrfcookie());
request.onload = callback;
request.send(data);