Django 1.2.1 CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.

I was getting this 403 error today while attempting to make a POST request to a view:
403 Forbidden

CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.
Help

Reason given for failure:

CSRF cookie not set.

Hopefully this saves you some time because I sure wasted a lot of mine solving it.  I ended up having to add ‘django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware’, and  ‘django.middleware.csrf.CsrfResponseMiddleware’ to my MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES in settings.py and my problems were solved.  All I had to say was mutha eff.  Django also was no help with their debug.  My MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES now looks like:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfResponseMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
)

Hope this helps.