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@@ -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