Empty request.POST in a Django view

Question

When sending a POST request to the following view, the request.POST dictionary is empty:

@csrf_exempt
def created_query(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        print(request.POST)
        server = get_object_or_404(Server, pk=request.POST['server'])
        if server.owner == request.user:
            if server.created:
                return HttpResponse("created")
            else:
                return HttpResponse("pending")
        else:
            return HttpResponseForbidden
    else:
        return HttpResponseForbidden

I have tried with multiple ways of generating the POST request such as this cURL request:

curl --request POST \
--url http://localhost:80/created/ \
--form server=60 \
--form action=created

I have checked the dictionary using a debugger as well as just printing it and it is always empty. I doubt it is a problem with the urls.py however here is the line in the file that handles this view:

url(r'^created/', views.created_query, name='created'),

Things we've already tried:

• Checking request content type
• Checking for use of raw_post_data

Answer 1

Starting at Django 1.5, POST does not contain non-form data anymore.

You can use request.body .