Django CSRF check failing with an Ajax POST request

Question

I could use some help complying with Django\'s CSRF protection mechanism via my AJAX post. I\'ve followed the directions here:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/r

Answer 1

Using Django 3.1.1 and all solutions I tried failed. However, adding the "csrfmiddlewaretoken" key to my POST body worked. Here's the call I made:

$.post(url, {
  csrfmiddlewaretoken: window.CSRF_TOKEN,
  method: "POST",
  data: JSON.stringify(data),
  dataType: 'JSON',
});

And in the HTML template: