How to get CSRF token in iOS?

Question

So I\'m trying to POST form data to my colleague\'s site in order login (simple username and password) from my iPhone app. However, it appears that I need a CSRF Token in o

Answer 1

As pointed out in the comments you could either parse it from any page containing a form on your friend's website.

If you want one for your own ask him to render this template at /ios/

ios.html:

{% csrftoken %}

Then launch a GET request:2 You can parse the value of the token with a regex:

NSString *regex = @"csrfmiddlewaretoken\".*?\"\(.*?\)\"";

Finally you have to set the value of the X-CSRFToken on your following HTTP POST requests.