Django - test client receives 403 because of csrf

Question

I'm using Django 1.6 and python 3.3.

I'm trying to test POST form with django test client, and it receives 403 after sending request. If I add @csrf_exempt at my view method, everything works perfect. But the Django documentation says that it should work with enabled csrf protection fine:

For this reason, Django’s HTTP client for tests has been modified to set a flag on requests which relaxes the middleware and the csrf_protect decorator so that they no longer rejects requests.

Here is my test code:

def testSimple(self):
    c = Client('Chrome 1.0')
    from partners.views import cashier
    response = c.post(reverse(cashier.simple), {'x': 123})
    self.assertContains(response,'html')

And here is a view:

def simple(request):
    return render(request, 'partners/cashier/index.html')

And when I run this test I see:

AssertionError: 403 != 200

So, can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

Client() has the following __init__:

def __init__(self, enforce_csrf_checks=False, **defaults):

You're setting enforce_csrf_checks to True b/c 'Chrome 1.0' evaluates to truthy!

If you want to set the user agent:

c = Client(HTTP_USER_AGENT='Mozilla/5.0')