Hi! I'm not a django rest expert, but i think i figured out what's wrong.
The SessionAuthentication class is not used to sign in the user, but to check if a request comes from an authenticated user.
To login using regular session cookie you're supposed to use the standard LoginView class
Thanks for the comment! I figured SessionAuthentication wasn't the correct one, after a few trials.
The only issue I see using directly LoginView is that it entails a server side template. That's why I didn't use it. Check the update in the post about it.
I'm still a little surprised about how complicated is this but it could be 100% because I'm not a Django expert either.
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Hi! I'm not a django rest expert, but i think i figured out what's wrong.
The SessionAuthentication class is not used to sign in the user, but to check if a request comes from an authenticated user.
To login using regular session cookie you're supposed to use the standard LoginView class
Thanks for the comment! I figured
SessionAuthenticationwasn't the correct one, after a few trials.The only issue I see using directly LoginView is that it entails a server side template. That's why I didn't use it. Check the update in the post about it.
I'm still a little surprised about how complicated is this but it could be 100% because I'm not a Django expert either.