Ajax Django Login/Authentication without re-direct

Question

I am trying to have an authentication set-up similar to that of StackOverflow, where the normal browsing is never affected unless there are some privileged actions which req

Answer 1

The approach I use is to have a Tastypie api layer and require authentication for the APIs. If the API call fails because of authentication, the client can request the user to log-in via the ajax login method.

You can log-in a user via ajax using this gist