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Note on using curl with token auth

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@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ To use the `TokenAuthentication` scheme, include `rest_framework.authtoken` in y
'rest_framework.authtoken'
)
Make sure to run `manage.py syncdb` after changing your settings.
You'll also need to create tokens for your users.
from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token
@ -140,6 +142,10 @@ Unauthenticated responses that are denied permission will result in an `HTTP 401
WWW-Authenticate: Token
The `curl` command line tool may be useful for testing token authenticated APIs. For example:
curl -X GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/example/ -H 'Authorization: Token 9944b09199c62bcf9418ad846dd0e4bbdfc6ee4b'
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**Note:** If you use `TokenAuthentication` in production you must ensure that your API is only available over `https` only.