Django : CSRF verification failed even after adding {% csrf_token %}

Question

views.py:

def index(request):
    return render_to_response(\'index.html\', {})

def photos(request, artist):
    if not artist:
        r         


        

Answer 1

Supposing you are using a fairly recent version of Django (1.3/1.4/dev) you should follow these steps :

• In settings.py, Add the middleware django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware to the MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES list.
• In your template, use the {% crsf_token %} in the form.
• In your view, ensure that the django.core.context_processors.csrf context processor is used either by :
  • use RequestContext from django.template
  • directly import the csrf processor from from django.core.context_processors

Examples

from django.template import RequestContext
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response

def my_view(request):
    return render_to_response('my_template.html', {}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

or

from django.core.context_processors import csrf
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response

def my_view(request):
    c = {csrf(request)}
    return render_to_response('my_template.html', c)

References

• csrf in Django 1.3 or csrf in Django 1.4
• RequestContext in Django 1.3 or RequestContext in Django 1.4

(exhaustive post for posterity and future viewers)