CSRF middleware does not handle REST api application correctly

[Kristoffer Snabb]

The CSRF middleware does not work if the application is a strict RESTful api that returns JSON with GET requests and adds information with POST requests. This problem came with the upgrade to Django version 1.2.5

A solution would be to add 'application/json' and 'application/javascript' to the types that should return a response with a csrtoken cookie.

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This is in the current csrf middleware:

_HTML_TYPES = ('text/html', 'application/xhtml+xml')

​http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/middleware/csrf.py?rev=15623

I did not find any good workarounds or other documentation about this so I report it here.

[Łukasz Rekucki]

CsrfResponseMiddleware is deprecated. The correct way to handle this, is using CsrfViewMiddleware and adding the token as a cookie . See the blog post about ​1.2.5 security release and it's ​errata