Method: ActionDispatch::Request#xml_http_request?

Defined in:
lib/action_dispatch/http/request.rb

#xml_http_request? ⇒ Boolean Also known as: xhr?

Returns true if the X-Requested-With header contains “XMLHttpRequest” (case-insensitive), which may need to be manually added depending on the choice of JavaScript libraries and frameworks.

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/action_dispatch/http/request.rb', line 305

def xml_http_request?
  /XMLHttpRequest/i.match?(get_header("HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH"))
end