Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

#30997 closed Cleanup/optimization

Deprecate HttpRequest.is_ajax — at Initial Version

Reported by: Adam Johnson Owned by: nobody
Component: HTTP handling Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

As discussed on [this django-developers thread](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/F8F5b1kEA34/FhqCmRw9BwAJ) this should be deprecated.

It inspects the non-standard header X-Requested-Wiith that is set by jQuery and maybe other frameworks. However jQuery's popularity, especially for making requests, is decreasing thanks to changes such as the new fetch() JS API.

Also in the cases this property is used to determine the kind of content to send to a client, it'd be better to inspect the HTTP standard Accept header.

For these reasons Flask has deprecated its similar property is_xhr.

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