Getting the "csrf token missing or incorrect" error in my django app

Question

I'm getting the "csrf token missing or incorrect" error in my django app. I have the csrf token in my template:

<form action="/hello/compare_lname" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data>{% csrf_token %}

I use request in render() in my view.py:

render(request, 'delta.html',{'delta_dict': delta_dict})

I put a print statement in _compare_salted_tokens in middleware.csrf

print(request_csrf_token, csrf_token).

request_csrf_token is changing. csrf_token doesn't change, even if I restart the server. csrf_token comes from:

csrf_token = request.META.get('CSRF_COOKIE')

Do I need to reset request.META.get('CSRF_COOKIE') somehow?

Answer 1

If your form tag is pasted directly from your template then you're missing an end quote on the enctype attribute.