Working with AJAX and CSRF

"Take a close look at possible CSRF / XSRF vulnerabilities on your own websites. They're the worst kind of vulnerability -- very easy to exploit by attackers, yet not so intuitively easy to understand for software developers, at least until you've been bitten by one."

Jeff Atwood

  • Explain need to add CSRF token to AJAX requests.
  • Explain defered CSRF style used by REST framework
  • Why you should use Django's standard login/logout views, and not REST framework view