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    copied!<p>I am trying to create a single ajax call. The ajax call is sent to server but the data then I am sending is not available in the request object in the view. When I print <code>request.post</code>, it gives <code>&lt;QueryDict: {}&gt;</code>. No data is being sent to the server. I know that the browser is sending the data since I can view it in the request payload in chrome. </p> <p><strong>script:</strong></p> <pre><code>$("#chatform").submit(function(e) { e.preventDefault(); //serialText = $(this).serialize(); var userText = $("#usertext").val(); var xmlRequest = $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "/sendmessage/", data: {'tosend': userText}, //dataType: 'json', contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8", success: function(data){ appendMessageSent(data.messagesent); } }); }); </code></pre> <p><strong>view.py:</strong></p> <pre><code>def send_message(request): if request.is_ajax(): message = "The hell with the world" print request.POST json = simplejson.dumps( {'messagesent' : request.POST['tosend']+"This is how we do it"} ) return HttpResponse(json, mimetype='application/javascript') </code></pre> <p><strong>html</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;form id="chatform" action="" method="POST" &gt; &lt;input type='hidden' name='csrfmiddlewaretoken' value='8idtqZb4Ovy6eshUtrAiYwtUBboW0PpZ' /&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="chatarea" id="usertext"/&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="Send"&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>I get an error saying that key <code>tosend</code> is not found in <code>request.post</code> dict.</p> <p><code>MultiValueDictKeyError: "Key 'tosend' not found in &lt;QueryDict: {}&gt;</code></p> <p>Can any one tell me why the data is not being sent to the server and/or why I can't access it in my view?</p>
 

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