Django-rest-framework and authentication

Question

I am trying to configure token authentcation on django-rest-framework. I have added the appropriate settings, and set

'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
    'rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication',
)

and the authentication works perfectly from the browser client or curl.

However if I try to use the browseable API, I get 401 unauthorized errors. The login page is available, but just doesn't actually seem to log me in. If I add session authentication:

'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
    'rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication',
    'rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication',
)

the browseable API works, but token requests fail with Unauthorised errors. Does anyone have a solution to this?

Anush Devendra · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-15 11:45:53Z

1

You need to pass the Token in the header of each request:

The token key should be included in the Authorization HTTP header. The key should be prefixed by the string literal "Token". For ex:

Authorization: Token 4564b09199c62bcf94fgds46dd0e4bbdfc6ee4b

answered Feb 15, 2015 at 11:45

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Alejo Bernardin Over a year ago

And how do you pass the token in each request @Anush?

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