#30997: Deprecate HttpRequest.is_ajax
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Reporter: Adam (Chainz) Johnson | Owner: nobody
Type: Cleanup/optimization | Status: new
Component: HTTP handling | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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As discussed on [this django-developers
thread](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-
developers/F8F5b1kEA34/FhqCmRw9BwAJ) this should be deprecated.
It inspects the non-standard header X-Requested-Wiith that is set by
jQuery and maybe other frameworks. However jQuery's popularity, especially
for making requests, is decreasing thanks to changes such as the new
`fetch()` JS API.
Also in the cases this property is used to determine the kind of content
to send to a client, it'd be better to inspect the HTTP standard `Accept`
header.
For these reasons Flask has deprecated its similar property `is_xhr`.
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