Django CSRF validation fails on POST requests : referer checking failed - no Referer

Question

My Django website is in HTTPS. When I am trying to POST data to the website from a script I get this error : "referer checking failed - no Referer". It seems to be a CSRF issue but I do not know how to solve it.

Example :

import requests
r = requests.post('https://mywebsite/mypage', data = {'key':'value'})
print r.text

gives me this output :

[...]

<p>Reason given for failure:</p>
<pre>
Referer checking failed - no Referer.
</pre>

<p>In general, this can occur when there is a genuine Cross Site Request Forgery, or when
<a
href="https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/csrf/">Django's
CSRF mechanism</a> has not been used correctly.  For POST forms, you need to
ensure:</p>

<ul>
<li>Your browser is accepting cookies.</li>

<li>The view function passes a <code>request</code> to the template's <a
href="https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/templates/#django.template.backends.base.Template.render"><code>render</code></a>
method.</li>

<li>In the template, there is a <code>{% csrf_token
%}</code> template tag inside each POST form that
targets an internal URL.</li>

<li>If you are not using <code>CsrfViewMiddleware</code>, then you must use
<code>csrf_protect</code> on any views that use the <code>csrf_token</code>
template tag, as well as those that accept the POST data.</li>

</ul>

[...]

Do I need to pass a referer to my headers before sending the POST data - which would not be convenient ? Or should I disable CSRF for this page ?

Thanks

Answer 1

AFAIK, This is the purpose of CSRF, to avoid posting data from unknown strange sources. You need csrf token to post this which django generates dynamically.