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    copied!<p>I am trying to make a little function for a user to request an account and the information he puts in is sent to a person who will make an account. I was following this example mostly <a href="http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/261/" rel="nofollow">http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/261/</a> but it is very old and might be inaccurate for I have got and thus I have problems with it.</p> <p>I have this code currently:</p> <h3>account/models.py</h3> <pre><code>from django import forms from django.core.mail import send_mail, BadHeaderError # A simple contact form with four fields. class NewAccountForm(forms.Form): first_name = forms.CharField() last_name = forms.CharField() email = forms.EmailField() </code></pre> <h3>account/views.py</h3> <pre><code>from django.http import HttpResponse from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect from django.shortcuts import render_to_response from django.template import RequestContext from account.models import NewAccountForm from django import forms from django.core.mail import send_mail, BadHeaderError def request_account_view(request): first_name = request.POST.get('first_name', '') last_name = request.POST.get('last_name', '') email = request.POST.get('email', '') message = (first_name + ' ' + last_name + ' has requested a new account for the email ' + email) if first_name and last_name and email: try: send_mail('Request for Account', message, email, ['example@example.com']) except BadHeaderError: return HttpResponse('Invalid header found.') return HttpResponseRedirect('/thankyou/') else: return render_to_response('new_account.html', {'form': NewAccountForm()}) return render_to_response('new_account.html', {'form': NewAccountForm()}, RequestContext(request)) def thankyou(request): return render_to_response('thankyou.html') </code></pre> <h3>urls.py</h3> <pre><code>(r'^thankyou/$', 'account.views.thankyou'), (r'^new_account/$', 'account.views.request_account_view'), </code></pre> <h3>templates/new_account.html</h3> <pre><code>{% extends "base.html" %} {% block content %} &lt;form action="/new_account/" method="post"&gt; {% csrf_token %} &lt;label id="id_first_name"&gt;First Name:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="first_name" value="" id="first_name" /&gt; &lt;label id="id_last_name"&gt;Last Name:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="last_name" value="" id="last_name" /&gt; &lt;label id="id_email"&gt;Email:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="email" value="" id="email" /&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="Submit Request"/&gt; &lt;/form&gt; {% endblock %} </code></pre> <p>I am getting an error for:</p> <pre><code>Forbidden (403) CSRF verification failed. Request aborted. </code></pre> <p>which occurs after I input name and password and click submit. My email host is working fine because I previously was working on a "Forgot Password" function. I would really appreciate help. Thank you.</p>
 

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