Hi Lucas

My approach has always been to turn of CSRF for API routes - if you don't want 
people being able to POST/PUT/DELETE, then authentication would be a good idea. 
Why does turning CSRF off for these routes not sound right to you?

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Pat

On 05/01/2012, at 8:57 AM, 2potatocakes wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I haven't actually looked around properly yet (am doing it now..) but
> thought I'd flick this question over here first anyways and see what
> you all thought?
> 
> I'm upgrading an old behemoth of an application to 2.3.14 at the mo
> and needed to add in CSRF protection for the entire site. Thing thing
> is, the majority of the site is web based but about 40% of it also
> acts as an API returning XML. I've updated my non get/post requests to
> use the token and the site is working fine via the web but if I try
> and access it via the existing API, my session data is now destroyed
> as the API request does not include the token..
> 
> Anyone got any ideas on the best way to approach this? So far I've
> only read people saying to turn it off for the  particular methods you
> want to expose.. which doesn't sound right to me..
> 
> Cheers if you can help.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Lucas
> 
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