jQuery POST to Django redirecting to GET with no data

Question

I need to post form data to a Django view before the form is submitted. All methods I try fail on the same point. The javascript to make the ajax call is:

$('#lockdown-email-form input[type=text]').focusout(function() {
    var data = $('#lockdown-email-form form').serialize()    
    $.post("/lockdown-email", data)
})

and the python that receives the call is:

def lockdown_email(request):
    msg = ''
    logger.info(request.method)
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = LockdownEmailForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            email_content = "Email:\n" + form.cleaned_data['email']
            mail_admins('Email for preview submission', email_content)
            msg = 'Thank you! Entering site.'
        else:
            msg = 'Email required'
    return HttpResponse(msg)

Problem is is that every time the request is made there's a redirect to the same URL but with GET method (from looking in dev tools network tab), so the function doesn't work. I've searched for a long time; some advice relates to CSRF but I've disabled this in settings.py and it still doesn't work.

This is on the django-lockdown page, although this specific example doesn't interact with lockdown. Any ideas?

EDIT:

urls.py

from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
from django.views.generic import TemplateView

from app import views

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^robots.txt$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="app/robots.txt")),
    url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
    url(r'lockdown-email$', views.lockdown_email, name='lockdown_email'),
    url(r'get-locations$', views.get_locations, name='get_locations'),
    url(r'amend-data$', views.amend_data, name='amend_data'),
    url(r'feedback$', views.feedback, name='feedback'),
    url(r'contest-data$', views.contest_data, name='contest_data'),
)

Answer 1

Well I have a temporary, and pretty unsatisfactory solution.

For some reason which I don't yet understand (but most likely to do with django-lockdown) the first time the ajax POST request is made it redirects to a GET, but the second time it behaves as expected. So my solution is simply to change my js to look like this:

$('#lockdown-email-form input[type=text]').focusout(function() {
    var data = "email=" + $('#lockdown-email-form input[type=text]').val()

    $.ajax({
        url: '/lockdown-email',
        type: 'POST',
        async: false,
        data: data,
    })
    $.ajax({
        url: '/lockdown-email',
        type: 'POST',
        async: false,
        data: data,
    })

})

Using ajax not post to ensure synchrous requests. I'll be looking for a better solution though.