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Ayoola Tosin
Ayoola Tosin

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CSRF verification failed. Request aborted. in django rest framework

halo i'm working on a project, using drf, but i'm getting CSRF verification failed. Request aborted at first everything was working, but now when i test my api i keep keep getting,CSRF verification failed below is my setting & view codes

settings file

REST_FRAMEWORK = { DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': ( 'rest_framework_simplejwt.authentication.JWTAuthentication ), 'DATE_INPUT_FORMATS': [("%Y-%m-%d")], 'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': ( 'rest_framework.permissions.IsAuthenticated' ), 'DEFAULT_PARSER_CLASSES': ( 'rest_framework.parsers.JSONParser', 'rest_framework.parsers.FormParser', 'rest_framework.parsers.MultiPartParser', ), 'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'rest_framework.pagination.PageNumberPagination', 'PAGE_SIZE': 100 } 
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views

class createProfileView(generics.CreateAPIView): queryset = UserProfile.objects.all() serializer_class = UserProfileSerializer permission_classes= [permissions.IsAuthenticated] parser_classes = (MultiPartParser, FormParser) def create(self,request, *args, **kwargs): serializer = self.get_serializer( data=request.data, instance = request.user.user_profile ) serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True) self.perform_create(serializer) headers = self.get_success_headers(serializer.data) res = { 'msg' : 'Profile successfully created', 'status':status.HTTP_201_CREATED, 'headers': headers, 'data': serializer.data, } return Response(res) def perform_create(self, serializer): serializer.save(user=self.request.user) 
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can anyone help

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sameer-ahmed123 • Edited

hi , csrf verification is Djangos built in security measure , it mostly occurs when there is missing CSRFtoken inside a form .
I suggest you take a look at the templates in your app and add any CSRFtoken that is missing , it will most likely solve your problem

a dango form should look like :

CSRF token