From d587ad10210299f9c22ae2b46af2f09215feb4bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Christie <tom@tomchristie.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 14:10:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use REST framework request parsing when accessing old-style
 .POST

---
 rest_framework/authentication.py | 5 ++---
 rest_framework/request.py        | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rest_framework/authentication.py b/rest_framework/authentication.py
index da88a239b..9e73ef632 100644
--- a/rest_framework/authentication.py
+++ b/rest_framework/authentication.py
@@ -117,9 +117,8 @@ class SessionAuthentication(BaseAuthentication):
         Otherwise returns `None`.
         """
 
-        # Get the underlying HttpRequest object
-        request = request._request
-        user = getattr(request, 'user', None)
+        # Get the session-based user from the underlying HttpRequest object
+        user = getattr(request._request, 'user', None)
 
         # Unauthenticated, CSRF validation not required
         if not user or not user.is_active:
diff --git a/rest_framework/request.py b/rest_framework/request.py
index 76bf496ce..846cadcd9 100644
--- a/rest_framework/request.py
+++ b/rest_framework/request.py
@@ -365,6 +365,15 @@ class Request(object):
             'since version 3.0, and has been fully removed as of version 3.2.'
         )
 
+    @property
+    def POST(self):
+        # Ensure that request.POST uses our request parsing.
+        if not _hasattr(self, '_data'):
+            self._load_data_and_files()
+        if is_form_media_type(self.content_type):
+            return self.data
+        return QueryDict('', encoding=self._request._encoding)
+
     @property
     def FILES(self):
         # Leave this one alone for backwards compat with Django's request.FILES