Using ajax request in Django without form element

Question

I\'d like to send an ajax request (via Jquery, although I think that\'s irrelevant in this situation) without using a form element in Django. According to the documentation,

Answer 1

ensure_csrf_cookie may only be a 1.4 alpha feature if you're having trouble importing it -- I can import it just fine with the same statement on trunk.

The simplest solution here is to pass the csrf_token VALUE in the ajax call itself.

You said you were using jQuery.

    $.ajax({
        url: "",
        type: 'POST',
        data: {
             csrfmiddlewaretoken: '{{ csrf_token }}' // just the token value
        },
        success: function(response) {
        }
    })

It appears this ensure_csrf_cookie forces the view to set the csrf cookie that would be required for use in the automatic cookie based csrf protection mechanism for jquery ajax calls described here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/csrf/#ajax