Missing Authentication Token while accessing API Gateway?

Question

I am trying to call a Lambda Function through AWS API Gateway. When I mention Authentication type NONE it works fine but API become public and anyone with url can access my

Answer 1

To contribute:

I had a similar error because my return response did not contain the 'body' like this:

return { 'statusCode': 200, 'body': "must contain the body tag if you replace it won't work" }