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**Note:** If you use `TokenAuthentication` in production you must ensure that your API is only available over `https` only.
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If you want every user to have an automatically generated Token, you can simply catch the User's `post_save` signal.
@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
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raise authenticate.AuthenticationFailed('No such user')
return (user, None)
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# Third party packages
The following third party packages are also available.
## 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.
[cite]: http://jacobian.org/writing/rest-worst-practices/
[http401]: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.2
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[throttling]: throttling.md
[csrf-ajax]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/csrf/#ajax
[mod_wsgi_official]: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ConfigurationDirectives#WSGIPassAuthorization
[juanriaza]: https://github.com/juanriaza
[djangorestframework-digestauth]: https://github.com/juanriaza/django-rest-framework-digestauth