How do you authenticate a websocket with token authentication on django channels?
For Django-Channels 2 you can write custom authentication middleware https://gist.github.com/rluts/22e05ed8f53f97bdd02eafdf38f3d60a token_auth.py: from channels.auth import AuthMiddlewareStack from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser class TokenAuthMiddleware: “”” Token authorization middleware for Django Channels 2 “”” def __init__(self, inner): self.inner = inner def __call__(self, scope): headers = dict(scope[‘headers’]) if b’authorization’ in headers: try: token_name, token_key = headers[b’authorization’].decode().split() … Read more