How to test REST API using Chrome's extension “Advanced Rest Client”

Question

Following the instructions at the link below, I successfully built a REST API for my Django application: http://django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/quickstart.

I can

Answer 1

in the header section you have to write

Authorization: Basic aG9sY67890vbGNpbQ==

where string after basic is the 64bit encoding value of your username:password. php example of getting the header values is: echo "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode("myUser:myPassword");

n.b: I assumed your authentication method as basic. which can be different as well.