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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md index 09491f02..8cf995b3 100755 --- a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md @@ -303,6 +303,10 @@ The command line to test the authentication looks like: curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <your-access-token>" http://localhost:8000/api/ +### Alternative OAuth 2 implementations + +Note that [Django OAuth Toolkit][django-oauth-toolkit] is an alternative external package that also includes OAuth 2.0 support for REST framework. + --- # Custom authentication @@ -347,6 +351,10 @@ The following third party packages are also available. 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 OAuth Toolkit + +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 excelllent [OAuthLib][oauthlib]. The package is well documented, and comes as a recommended alternative for OAuth 2.0 support. + [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 @@ -365,3 +373,6 @@ HTTP digest authentication is a widely implemented scheme that was intended to r [django-oauth2-provider]: https://github.com/caffeinehit/django-oauth2-provider [django-oauth2-provider-docs]: https://django-oauth2-provider.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ [rfc6749]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749 +[django-oauth-toolkit]: https://github.com/evonove/django-oauth-toolkit +[evonove]: https://github.com/evonove/ +[oauthlib]: https://github.com/idan/oauthlib |