[Answer]-302 status code when trying to retrieve token from rest framework

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Have you checked the value of APPEND_SLASH to see if that is doing it, from djangos docs:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#append-slash

Default: True

When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. >Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost.

The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed

The other thing to check is that you are using curl as you expect, try the following command:

curl --data "username=xxx&password=xxx" http://localhost:8000/api/token-auth/

As an aside from the docs:

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/authentication#tokenauthentication

We can keep things a little cleaner by adding just the following to your url patterns:

urlpatterns += patterns('',
    url(r'^api-token-auth/', 'rest_framework.authtoken.views.obtain_auth_token')
)

It also says further down that page:

If you need a customized version of the obtain_auth_token view, you can do so by overriding the ObtainAuthToken view class, and using that in your url conf instead.

You could do that by doing something like this:

from rest_framework.authtoken.views import ObtainAuthToken

class ModifiedObtainAuthToken(ObtainAuthToken):
    pass

modified_obtain_auth_token = ModifiedObtainAuthToken.as_view()

and then adding something like:

urlpatterns += patterns('',
    url(r'^api-token-auth/', 'yourapp.views.modified_obtain_auth_token')
)
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