rest_framework.authentication

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Provides various authentication policies.

Class	`BaseAuthentication`	All authentication classes should extend BaseAuthentication.
Class	`BasicAuthentication`	HTTP Basic authentication against username/password.
Class	`CSRFCheck`	Undocumented
Class	`RemoteUserAuthentication`	REMOTE_USER authentication.
Class	`SessionAuthentication`	Use Django's session framework for authentication.
Class	`TokenAuthentication`	Simple token based authentication.
Function	`get_authorization_header`	Return request's 'Authorization:' header, as a bytestring.

def get_authorization_header(request): (source) ¶

Return request's 'Authorization:' header, as a bytestring. Hide some test client ickyness where the header can be unicode.