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| diff --git a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md index 2074f1bf..bb731817 100755 --- a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md @@ -293,13 +293,48 @@ The following example will authenticate any incoming request as the user given b  The following third party packages are also available. -## Digest Authentication +## Django OAuth Toolkit -HTTP digest authentication is a widely implemented scheme that was intended to replace HTTP basic authentication, and which provides a simple encrypted authentication mechanism. [Juan Riaza][juanriaza] maintains the [djangorestframework-digestauth][djangorestframework-digestauth] package which provides HTTP digest authentication support for REST framework. +The [Django OAuth Toolkit][django-oauth-toolkit] package provides OAuth 2.0 support, and works with Python 2.7 and Python 3.3+. The package is maintained by [Evonove][evonove] and uses the excellent [OAuthLib][oauthlib].  The package is well documented, and well supported and is currently our **recommended package for OAuth 2.0 support**. -## Django OAuth Toolkit +#### Installation & configuration + +Install using `pip`. + +    pip install django-oauth-toolkit + +Add the package to your `INSTALLED_APPS` and modify your REST framework settings. -The [Django OAuth Toolkit][django-oauth-toolkit] package provides OAuth 2.0 support, and works with Python 2.7 and Python 3.3+.  The package is maintained by [Evonove][evonove] and uses the excellent [OAuthLib][oauthlib].  The package is well documented, and comes as a recommended alternative for OAuth 2.0 support. +    INSTALLED_APPS = ( +        ... +        'oauth2_provider', +    ) + +    REST_FRAMEWORK = { +        'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': ( +            'oauth2_provider.ext.rest_framework.OAuth2Authentication', +        ) +    } + +For more details see the [Django REST framework - Getting started][django-oauth-toolkit-getting-started] documentation. + +## Django REST framework OAuth + +The [Django REST framework OAuth][django-rest-framework-oauth] package provides both OAuth1 and OAuth2 support for REST framework. + +This package was previously included directly in REST framework but is now supported and maintained as a third party package. + +#### Installation & configuration + +Install the package using `pip`. + +    pip install djangorestframework-oauth + +For details on configuration and usage see the Django REST framework OAuth documentation for [authentication][django-rest-framework-oauth-authentication] and [permissions][django-rest-framework-oauth-permissions]. + +## Digest Authentication + +HTTP digest authentication is a widely implemented scheme that was intended to replace HTTP basic authentication, and which provides a simple encrypted authentication mechanism. [Juan Riaza][juanriaza] maintains the [djangorestframework-digestauth][djangorestframework-digestauth] package which provides HTTP digest authentication support for REST framework.  ## Django OAuth2 Consumer @@ -332,6 +367,10 @@ HTTP Signature (currently a [IETF draft][http-signature-ietf-draft]) provides a  [mod_wsgi_official]: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ConfigurationDirectives#WSGIPassAuthorization  [custom-user-model]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/customizing/#specifying-a-custom-user-model  [south-dependencies]: http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/dependencies.html +[django-oauth-toolkit-getting-started]: https://django-oauth-toolkit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/rest-framework/getting_started.html +[django-rest-framework-oauth]: http://jpadilla.github.io/django-rest-framework-oauth/ +[django-rest-framework-oauth-authentication]: http://jpadilla.github.io/django-rest-framework-oauth/authentication/ +[django-rest-framework-oauth-permissions]: http://jpadilla.github.io/django-rest-framework-oauth/permissions/  [juanriaza]: https://github.com/juanriaza  [djangorestframework-digestauth]: https://github.com/juanriaza/django-rest-framework-digestauth  [oauth-1.0a]: http://oauth.net/core/1.0a | 
