How to receive jQuery.get() in django view

I have a very simple test with jQuery and a django view:

HTML - Includes jQuery.js
JavaScript - $(document).ready( $.get("/index/" ); )

Django urls.py:

(r'^index/', index_view ),

Django views.py:

def index_view(request): if request.GET: return HttpResponse( "RECEIVED GET" )

Debugging in browser, the javascript gets called but the view never displays "RECEIVED GET".