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@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ If successfully authenticated, `SessionAuthentication` provides the following cr
Unauthenticated responses that are denied permission will result in an `HTTP 403 Forbidden` response.
-If you're using an AJAX style API with SessionAuthentication, you'll need to make sure you include a valid CSRF token for any "unsafe" HTTP method calls, such as `PUT`, `POST` or `DELETE` requests. See the [Django CSRF documentation][csrf-ajax] for more details.
+If you're using an AJAX style API with SessionAuthentication, you'll need to make sure you include a valid CSRF token for any "unsafe" HTTP method calls, such as `PUT`, `PATCH`, `POST` or `DELETE` requests. See the [Django CSRF documentation][csrf-ajax] for more details.
# Custom authentication
@@ -190,9 +190,9 @@ Typically the approach you should take is:
* If authentication is not attempted, return `None`. Any other authentication schemes also in use will still be checked.
* If authentication is attempted but fails, raise a `AuthenticationFailed` exception. An error response will be returned immediately, without checking any other authentication schemes.
-You *may* also override the `.authentication_header(self, request)` method. If implemented, it should return a string that will be used as the value of the `WWW-Authenticate` header in a `HTTP 401 Unauthorized` response.
+You *may* also override the `.authenticate_header(self, request)` method. If implemented, it should return a string that will be used as the value of the `WWW-Authenticate` header in a `HTTP 401 Unauthorized` response.
-If the `.authentication_header()` method is not overridden, the authentication scheme will return `HTTP 403 Forbidden` responses when an unauthenticated request is denied access.
+If the `.authenticate_header()` method is not overridden, the authentication scheme will return `HTTP 403 Forbidden` responses when an unauthenticated request is denied access.
## Example