rest_framework.authentication.BaseAuthentication

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class BaseAuthentication: (source)

Known subclasses: rest_framework.authentication.BasicAuthentication, rest_framework.authentication.RemoteUserAuthentication, rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication, rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication

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All authentication classes should extend BaseAuthentication.

Method	`authenticate`	Authenticate the request and return a two-tuple of (user, token).
Method	`authenticate_header`	Return a string to be used as the value of the `WWW-Authenticate` header in a `401 Unauthenticated` response, or `None` if the authentication scheme should return `403 Permission Denied` responses.

def authenticate(self, request): (source) ¶

overridden in rest_framework.authentication.BasicAuthentication, rest_framework.authentication.RemoteUserAuthentication, rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication, rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication

Authenticate the request and return a two-tuple of (user, token).

def authenticate_header(self, request): (source) ¶

overridden in rest_framework.authentication.BasicAuthentication, rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication

Return a string to be used as the value of the `WWW-Authenticate` header in a `401 Unauthenticated` response, or `None` if the authentication scheme should return `403 Permission Denied` responses.