I am new to AJAX and django.
I have written my own XMLHttpRequest call on browser side. I will have to manually set the header request.META['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH'] to string XMLHttpRequest.
How can I access these headers on browser side?
Use HttpRequest.is_ajax(). See the docs.
Some post about django and ajax: Django AJAX Tutorial Part 1 - adding email to newsletter
If you want an easy to use solution for impolementing ajax ni django, I would recommend dajax i am using it in my own project and it simplifies things a lot.
of cause you wont be able to customize it as much as with your own programming but especially for beginners its pretty useful