Enable session and basic authentication for rest framework

website/thaliawebsite/settings/settings.py

@@ -165,6 +165,8 @@ AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [
 
 REST_FRAMEWORK = {
     'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
+        'rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication',
+        'rest_framework.authentication.BasicAuthentication',
         'rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication',
     )
 }