What is @csrf_exempt

Normally when you make a request via a form you want the form being submitted to your view to originate from your website and not come from some other domain. To ensure that this happens, you can put a csrf token in your form for your view to recognize. If you add @csrf_exempt to the top of your view, then you are basically telling the view that it doesn't need the token. This is a security exemption that you should take seriously.


The decorator marks a view as being exempt from the protection ensured by the middleware. Example:

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

@csrf_exempt
def my_view(request):
    return HttpResponse('Hello world')