Learn Web Development with Python

Making authenticated requests

Now, we can launch Django's development server to compose and send authenticated HTTP requests to understand how the configured authentication classes, combined with the permission policies, work. Execute any of the following two commands based on your needs to access the API in other devices or computers connected to your LAN. Remember that we analyzed the difference between them in Chapter 13, Creating API Views, in the Launching Django's development server section:

    python manage.py runserver
    python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

After we run any of the previous commands, the development server will start listening at port 8000.

We will compose and send an HTTP POST request without authentication credentials ...