Django's HttpRequest.is_ajax method determines whether the request was made with the JS API XMLHttpRequest https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpRequest.is_ajax . It does so by checking the X-Requested-With header.
The new way of making "AJAX" requests from the browser is the JavaScript fetch() API : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API . I think the is_ajax() documentation is at least a little misleading in pretending XMLHttpRequest is the only JS API. There also aren't any special headers set by fetch() so it's not possible to detect its requests. I propose deprecating is_ajax() with no replacement. Thoughts? -- Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAMyDDM0i-p0ZxBj-fSheGs-2pMXH7K7Oka%3DCjy1YXx-emBu3mw%40mail.gmail.com.
