I'm implementing token authentication via DRF(Django-rest-framework). So far I've understood that in token authentication you exchange your credential with a token which server had had already generated for every user. Then you put that token in every request header to the API, without worrying about the cookies.

Now I know how to generate token and write to view to authenticate and issue token. However, I haven't figured out how to put token in the http header, which I suppose need to be done in front-end.

I tried to search but there doesn't seems to a clear answer on the internet how to do it.

I'm implementing token authentication via DRF(Django-rest-framework). So far I've understood that in token authentication you exchange your credential with a token which server had had already generated for every user. Then you put that token in every request header to the API, without worrying about the cookies.

Now I know how to generate token and write to view to authenticate and issue token. However, I haven't figured out how to put token in the http header, which I suppose need to be done in front-end.

I tried to search but there doesn't seems to a clear answer on the internet how to do it.

• javascript
• django
• django-rest-framework

1 Answer 1

You need to provide that token in the Authorization header

Example :

headers = {
    "Authorization": "Token " + token
}

# or, depends upon specific Token Authentication that you're using
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer " + token
}

And then send this as header, something like this

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

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