Ahh... that's what I was missing.
Thanks, Nathan (as I'm also using jQuery). :)
On Apr 10, 6:23 pm, "Nathaniel Whiteinge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been happily using limodou's suggestion with the jQuery framework
> for a few weeks, hopefully whatever framework you're using also sends
> the X-Requested-With header--it just feels cleaner.
>
> if request.META.get('HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH') == 'XMLHttpRequest':
> # do stuff...
>
> - whiteinge
>
> On Apr 10, 8:56 am, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Is there a standard way to detect if a request was an ajax one? I
> > > know I could append a key to the ajax request like in Mr. Bennett's
> > > post here:
>
> > >http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/07/31/django-tips-simple-ajax-examp...
>
> > > iehttp://website.com/some/request/?xhrandin my view, dump out json
> > > accordingly, etc, but I was wondering if there was a standard way
> > > without attaching a key (perhaps looking at a request header).
>
> > One of the beauties of the web is that a request is a request is
> > a request. Information can be transmitted in the URL, in
> > cookies, or in HTTP-authentication. One might also be able to
> > tweak the other HTTP headers. My interpretation of the web
> > philosophy says that you want to refer to the resource:
>
> > http://example.com/path/to/resource
>
> > If you want to alter the format, you can either make it a
> > pseudo-resource:
>
> > http://example.com/path/to/resource/json
>
> > or pass it as a parameter:
>
> > http://example.com/path/to/resource?format=json
>
> > I tend to prefer the latter, because it's clearly the same
> > resource, just changed-up a bit in the formatting dimension
> > (plain-text, HTML, XML, JSON, YAML, CSV, tab-delimited, etc). I
> > do similarly for sorting options:
>
> > http://example.com/path/to/resource?order=fieldname
>
> > Just my $0.02
>
> > -tkc
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