401 Unatuhorized(“detail”:“Authentication credenti

Question

i am using djoser's authentication at backend. when i make a get request at "/account/me/" through post man with content-type and Authorization header i am getting a correct response. But when i try to do same request from my angular client i get 401 Unatuhorized("detail":"Authentication credentials were not provided.") error. here is my angular service

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import {homeUrls} from "../../../utils/urls";
import {Http, RequestOptions, Headers Response} from '@angular/http';
import {HttpHeaders,} from "@angular/common/http";
@Injectable()
export class AdsService {
  private headers = new Headers();
  private token: string;
  constructor(private http: Http) {
    this.token = localStorage.getItem('token');
    console.log("token is " , this.token);
    //this.headers = new Headers({'Content-Type': 'application/json' , 'Authorization': 'Token ' + this.token });
     this.headers.append('Authorization', 'Token ' + this.token);
     this.headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/json');
    console.log(this.headers);
    this.getMe();
  }

  getMe(): Promise<any> {
    let options = new RequestOptions({ headers: this.headers });
      return this.http.get(homeUrls.User, options)
        .toPromise()
        .then(res=> {
          console.log("user is");
          console.log(res.json());
        });
  }

and here is the screenshot of headers window of my network tab.

any solutions?

Answer 1

When doing a preflight requests, custom headers such as Authorization will not be included.

So, if your server expects only authenticated users to perform an OPTIONS requests, then you'll end up always getting 401 errors (since the headers will never be passed)

Now, I don't know django at all, but from this thread here it looks like a known issue

https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/issues/5616

Maybe try the suggested workaround, which is using a custom permission checker instead of using django rest framework's default

Workaround (from above thread)

# myapp/permissions.py
from rest_framework.permissions import IsAuthenticated

class AllowOptionsAuthentication(IsAuthenticated):
    def has_permission(self, request, view):
        if request.method == 'OPTIONS':
            return True
        return request.user and request.user.is_authenticated

And in settings.py:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': ( 'rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication',),
    'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': (
        'myapp.permissions.AllowOptionsAuthentication',
    )
}