django ajax proxy view

Question

A django web app needs to make ajax calls to an external url. In development I serve directly from django so I have a cross domain problem. What is the django way to write a proxy for the ajax call?

Answer 1

Am I right that you are asking about how to write view in Django that could accept incoming AJAX request, issue request to the remote server and then return received response to browser?

If so, then it's not really Django-specific question - remote calls could be done with Python's urllib2 or httplib, and then you just have to put:

 return HttpResponse(received_response)

-- in your Django proxy-view. I assume no reponse processing here, because if it's just a proxy for AJAX call then JavaScript expects unprocessed data.