Some users are still having problems with the pop-up login. I think they are actually getting 403s because of the CSRF protection. So I have modified the base template to always have a javascript variable called csrf_token available when they aren't logged in. The ajax_login.js script was then modified to send this value with the ajax post. Fingers crossed.

"""views for the IRC application"""

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext

from irc.models import IrcChannel

def view(request):
   nicks = IrcChannel.objects.all()
   return render_to_response('irc/view.html',
         {'nicks': nicks},
         context_instance = RequestContext(request))