Bypassing Django CSRF Protection using external POST Request

Question

I have a Python program that needs to be able to send data to my website (built with Django). This data will then be taken and displayed on a certain part of the website. The problem I'm having is that the CSRF protection built into Django blocks my POST request. From what I understand, this is usually avoided by adding {%csrf_token} to whatever form the POST request is being sent to. My problem is that I'm trying to send the POST request to a .cgi script rather than a form. Does anybody know how I could bypass the CSRF protection (preferably without removing it completely although this is an option.)

Answer 1

You should use the csrf_exempt decorator to avoid csrf protection in certains view.

You can read the docs for more information

Answer 2

In case you are using class based views, I'd recommend django-braces which uses a mixin to achieve this, as well as providing other extremely useful mixins.