How-to How to use Django’s CSRF protection
By default, a ‘403 Forbidden’ response is sent to the user if an incoming request fails the checks performed by CsrfViewMiddleware.
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How-to How to use Django’s CSRF protection
Rather than adding CsrfViewMiddleware as a blanket protection, you can use the csrf_protect() decorator, which has exactly the same functionality, on particular views that need the protection.
How-to How to use Django’s CSRF protection
By default, a ‘403 Forbidden’ response is sent to the user if an incoming request fails the checks performed by CsrfViewMiddleware.
Topic guide Working with forms
NOTE: Django ships with an easy-to-use protection against Cross Site > Request Forgeries. When submitting a form via POST with > CSRF protection enabled you must use the csrf_token template tag as > in the preceding example.
Topic guide Working with forms Building a formBuilding a form in Django
NOTE: Django ships with an easy-to-use protection against Cross Site > Request Forgeries. When submitting a form via POST with > CSRF protection enabled you must use the csrf_token template tag as > in the preceding example.
Internals Django Deprecation Timeline
See the Django 1.2 release notes for more details on these changes. CsrfResponseMiddleware and CsrfMiddleware will be removed. Use the {% csrf_token %} template tag inside forms to enable CSRF protection. CsrfViewMiddleware remains and is enabled by default.
Tutorial Writing your first Django app, part 4
In short, all POST forms that are targeted at internal URLs should use the {% csrf_token %} template tag. Now, let’s create a Django view that handles the submitted data and does something with it.
Topic guide Templates
Here’s an example of the search algorithm.
Internals Django Deprecation Timeline
See the Django 1.2 release notes for more details on these changes. CsrfResponseMiddleware and CsrfMiddleware will be removed. Use the {% csrf_token %} template tag inside forms to enable CSRF protection. CsrfViewMiddleware remains and is enabled by default.
Tutorial Writing your first Django app, part 4
In short, all POST forms that are targeted at internal URLs should use the {% csrf_token %} template tag. Now, let’s create a Django view that handles the submitted data and does something with it.
Internals Django Deprecation Timeline
See the Django 1.2 release notes for more details on these changes. CsrfResponseMiddleware and CsrfMiddleware will be removed. Use the {% csrf_token %} template tag inside forms to enable CSRF protection. CsrfViewMiddleware remains and is enabled by default.
Internals Django Deprecation Timeline
The csrf_response_exempt and csrf_view_exempt decorators will be removed. Since 1.4 csrf_response_exempt has been a no-op (it returns the same function), and csrf_view_exempt has been a synonym for django.views.decorators.csrf.csrf_exempt, which should be used to replace it.
Internals Django Deprecation Timeline
The undocumented check_for_test_cookie method in AuthenticationForm will be removed following an accelerated deprecation. Users subclassing this form should remove calls to this method, and instead ensure that their auth related views are CSRF protected, which ensures that cookies are enabled.
Reference Cross Site Request Forgery protection
csrf_exempt(view)[source] : This decorator marks a view as being exempt from the protection ensured by the middleware. Example: csrf_protect(view) : Decorator that provides the protection of CsrfViewMiddleware to a view.
Reference Cross Site Request Forgery protection
csrf_exempt(view)[source] : This decorator marks a view as being exempt from the protection ensured by the middleware. Example: csrf_protect(view) : Decorator that provides the protection of CsrfViewMiddleware to a view.
Topic guide Asynchronous support Async views
The following decorators can be used with both synchronous and asynchronous view functions: cache_control() never_cache() no_append_slash() csp_override() csp_report_only_override() csrf_exempt() csrf_protect() ensure_csrf_cookie() requires_csrf_token() sensitive_variables() sensitive_post_parameters() gzip_page() condition() conditional_page() etag() last_modified() require_http_methods() require_GET() require_POST() require_safe() vary_on_cookie() vary_on_headers() xframe_options_deny() xframe_options_sameorigin() xframe_options_exempt() For example:
How-to How to implement a custom template backend
Here’s how to implement a custom template backend in order to use another template system. A template backend is a class that inherits django.template.backends.base.BaseEngine. It must implement get_template() and optionally from_string().
Reference Generic editing views
classdjango.views.generic.edit.FormView : A view that displays a form. On error, redisplays the form with validation errors; on success, redirects to a new URL. classdjango.views.generic.edit.BaseFormView : A base view for displaying a form.
Topic guide Asynchronous support
The following decorators can be used with both synchronous and asynchronous view functions: cache_control() never_cache() no_append_slash() csp_override() csp_report_only_override() csrf_exempt() csrf_protect() ensure_csrf_cookie() requires_csrf_token() sensitive_variables() sensitive_post_parameters() gzip_page() condition() conditional_page() etag() last_modified() require_http_methods() require_GET() require_POST() require_safe() vary_on_cookie() vary_on_headers() xframe_options_deny() xframe_options_sameorigin() xframe_options_exempt() For example: …
Topic guide Templates
Tags provide arbitrary logic in the rendering process. This definition is deliberately vague. For example, a tag can output content, serve as a control structure e.g.