Using an authorization header with Fetch in React Native

Question

I\'m trying to use fetch in React Native to grab information from the Product Hunt API. I\'ve obtained the proper Access Token and have saved it to State, but d

Answer 1

I had this identical problem, I was using django-rest-knox for authentication tokens. It turns out that nothing was wrong with my fetch method which looked like this:

...
    let headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"};
    if (token) {
      headers["Authorization"] = `Token ${token}`;
    }
    return fetch("/api/instruments/", {headers,})
      .then(res => {
...

I was running apache.

What solved this problem for me was changing WSGIPassAuthorization to 'On' in wsgi.conf.

I had a Django app deployed on AWS EC2, and I used Elastic Beanstalk to manage my application, so in the django.config, I did this:

container_commands:
  01wsgipass:
    command: 'echo "WSGIPassAuthorization On" >> ../wsgi.conf'