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30997	Deprecate HttpRequest.is_ajax	Adam Johnson	nobody	"As discussed on [this django-developers thread](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/F8F5b1kEA34/FhqCmRw9BwAJ) this should be deprecated.

It inspects the non-standard header X-Requested-Wiith that is set by jQuery and maybe other frameworks. However jQuery's popularity, especially for making requests, is decreasing thanks to changes such as the new `fetch()` JS API.

Also in the cases this property is used to determine the kind of content to send to a client, it'd be better to inspect the HTTP standard `Accept` header.

For these reasons Flask has deprecated its similar property `is_xhr`."	Cleanup/optimization	new	HTTP handling	dev	Normal				Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0