Question

I’m using jQuery to send an ajax request for Django. To select the response template I’m checking the request like this:

def about(request) :
    context = {'content' : 'about.html',
               'section_nav' : 'about_nav.html'}

    if request.is_ajax() :
        context['ajax'] = True

    return render_to_response('main.html', context)

In main.html I check either if is ajax or not and extend a different template.
And the jQuery is simple as:

$.get('/about/', function(data) {
        $('.article').html(data);
});

In Chrome and Firefox it works just fine… but IE9 returns False in request.is_ajax() and loads the page with the wrong context.
How can I overcome this problem, and make an ajax request from IE (with jQuery) and recognize it with django?

Answer 1

Try using $.ajax instead of $.get. I’ve read that using $.ajax works with all browsers but $.get won’t send the ajax header with IE.

Also set the cache option to false.