Django-rest-auth basic authorization error {"password":["(This field is required"]} - django

Question

I i am new to django-rest-auth and apis.
Its the first time i build a rest auth and i am not very familiar with Authorization headers and Content Types.
I am trying to understand why when i try to authenticate a user in /login/ with Basic Authorization like this:
curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=" 'https://myurl.com/rest-auth/login/' --insecure
i got this error message:
{"password":["(This field is required"]}
When passing the username and password in the body like this:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -d 'username=myuser&password=mypassword' 'https://myurl.com/rest-auth/login/' --insecure
I got the key:
{"key":"b5c0f3a9c7b2fc2f58a74b25f816e2968c64712f"}
Why this is happening?
I also wonder why when trying the same in /user/ it didn't throw me any error and give me my user model serialized
curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=" -H "Cache-Control: no-cache" 'https://myurl.com/rest-auth/user/' --insecure
The only difference i can understand is that in /login i am using POST and in /user/ is GET
Can anybody explain this to me?
Thanks for reading!

Answer 1

The '/auth/login/' endpoint is specifically for getting an authentication token to use with token authentication on the rest of the app. It doesn't itself support any authentication methods. The second curl command uses the correct method. the third curl command works because you are using an endpoint which does support Basic Authentication (you can could also use the token you got in the second call).

Answer 2

pls refer
Inet Mode Example (unprivileged user with AltAuth)
$ echo -e "GET http://localhost/slurm/v1/diag HTTP/1.1\r\nAccept: */*\r\n" |
slurmrestd -f etc/slurm.token.conf
● slurmrestd: operations_router: /slurm/v1/diag for pipe:[1052487]
● HTTP/1.1 200 OK
● Content-Length: 973
● {
● "parts_packedg": 1,
● "req_timeg": 1568051342,
● "req_time_startg": 1568050812,
● "server_thread_count": 3,
… JSON continues ...