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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md index 53efc49a..dc8e2099 100755 --- a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md @@ -389,6 +389,10 @@ The [Django OAuth Toolkit][django-oauth-toolkit] package provides OAuth 2.0 supp The [Django OAuth2 Consumer][doac] library from [Rediker Software][rediker] is another package that provides [OAuth 2.0 support for REST framework][doac-rest-framework]. The package includes token scoping permissions on tokens, which allows finer-grained access to your API. +## JSON Web Token Authentication + +JSON Web Token is a fairly new standard which can be used for token-based authentication. Unlike the built-in TokenAuthentication scheme, JWT Authentication doesn't need to use a database to validate a token. [Blimp][blimp] maintains the [djangorestframework-jwt][djangorestframework-jwt] package which provides a JWT Authentication class as well as a mechanism for clients to obtain a JWT given the username and password. + [cite]: http://jacobian.org/writing/rest-worst-practices/ [http401]: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.2 [http403]: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.4 @@ -413,3 +417,5 @@ The [Django OAuth2 Consumer][doac] library from [Rediker Software][rediker] is a [doac]: https://github.com/Rediker-Software/doac [rediker]: https://github.com/Rediker-Software [doac-rest-framework]: https://github.com/Rediker-Software/doac/blob/master/docs/integrations.md# +[blimp]: https://github.com/GetBlimp +[djangorestframework-jwt]: https://github.com/GetBlimp/django-rest-framework-jwt |