Merge pull request #3400 from James1345/master

added knox package reference to 3rd party auth apps

Author: jpadilla

docs/api-guide/authentication.md

@@ -360,6 +360,10 @@ HTTP Signature (currently a [IETF draft][http-signature-ietf-draft]) provides a
 
 [Django-rest-auth][django-rest-auth] library provides a set of REST API endpoints for registration, authentication (including social media authentication), password reset, retrieve and update user details, etc. By having these API endpoints, your client apps such as AngularJS, iOS, Android, and others can communicate to your Django backend site independently via REST APIs for user management.
 
+## django-rest-knox
+
+[Django-rest-knox][django-rest-knox] library provides models and views to handle token based authentication in a more secure and extensible way than the built-in TokenAuthentication scheme - with Single Page Applications and Mobile clients in mind. It provides per-client tokens, and views to generate them when provided some other authentication (usually basic authentication), to delete the token (providing a server enforced logout) and to delete all tokens (logs out all clients that a user is logged into).
+
 [cite]: http://jacobian.org/writing/rest-worst-practices/
 [http401]: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.2
 [http403]: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.4
@@ -400,3 +404,4 @@ HTTP Signature (currently a [IETF draft][http-signature-ietf-draft]) provides a
 [mac]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-oauth-v2-mac-token-05
 [djoser]: https://github.com/sunscrapers/djoser
 [django-rest-auth]: https://github.com/Tivix/django-rest-auth
+[django-rest-knox]: https://github.com/James1345/django-rest-knox