Django CSRF Cookie Not Set

Question

This can also occur if CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE = True is set and you are accessing the site non-securely or if CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY = True is set as stated here and here

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt

@csrf_exempt 
def your_view(request):
    if request.method == "POST":
        # do something
    return HttpResponse("Your response")

If you're using the HTML5 Fetch API to make POST requests as a logged in user and getting Forbidden (CSRF cookie not set.), it could be because by default fetch does not include session cookies, resulting in Django thinking you're a different user than the one who loaded the page.

You can include the session token by passing the option credentials: 'include' to fetch:

var csrftoken = getCookie('csrftoken');
var headers = new Headers();
headers.append('X-CSRFToken', csrftoken);
fetch('/api/upload', {
    method: 'POST',
    body: payload,
    headers: headers,
    credentials: 'include'
})

From This You can solve it by adding the ensure_csrf_cookie decorator to your view

from django.views.decorators.csrf import ensure_csrf_cookie
@ensure_csrf_cookie
def yourView(request):
 #...

if this method doesn't work. you will try to comment csrf in middleware. and test again.

If you're using DRF, check if your urlpatterns are correct, maybe you forgot .as_view():

So that how mine code looked like:

urlpatterns += path('resource', ResourceView) 

And that's how it should like:

urlpatterns += path('resource', ResourceView.as_view())