Check XSRF tokens on all non-idempotent requests instead of just POST.

diff --git a/tornado/web.py b/tornado/web.py
index 20dbcae7198cb96b5f06b8838325bf96a4b78edd..01ba81bb6cdaa0723913c1780d9441866ed451dd 100644 (file)
--- a/tornado/web.py
+++ b/tornado/web.py
@@ -853,7 +853,7 @@ class RequestHandler(object):
                 raise HTTPError(405)
             # If XSRF cookies are turned on, reject form submissions without
             # the proper cookie
-            if self.request.method == "POST" and \
+            if self.request.method not in ("GET", "HEAD") and \
                self.application.settings.get("xsrf_cookies"):
                 self.check_xsrf_cookie()
             self.prepare()