Merge pull request #1364 from jpadilla/patch-1

Include the djangorestframework-jwt package

docs/api-guide/authentication.md

@@ -389,6 +389,10 @@ The [Django OAuth Toolkit][django-oauth-toolkit] package provides OAuth 2.0 supp
 
 The [Django OAuth2 Consumer][doac] library from [Rediker Software][rediker] is another package that provides [OAuth 2.0 support for REST framework][doac-rest-framework].  The package includes token scoping permissions on tokens, which allows finer-grained access to your API.
 
+## JSON Web Token Authentication
+
+JSON Web Token is a fairly new standard which can be used for token-based authentication. Unlike the built-in TokenAuthentication scheme, JWT Authentication doesn't need to use a database to validate a token. [Blimp][blimp] maintains the [djangorestframework-jwt][djangorestframework-jwt] package which provides a JWT Authentication class as well as a mechanism for clients to obtain a JWT given the username and password.
+
 [cite]: http://jacobian.org/writing/rest-worst-practices/
 [http401]: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.2
 [http403]: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.4
@@ -413,3 +417,5 @@ The [Django OAuth2 Consumer][doac] library from [Rediker Software][rediker] is a
 [doac]: https://github.com/Rediker-Software/doac
 [rediker]: https://github.com/Rediker-Software
 [doac-rest-framework]: https://github.com/Rediker-Software/doac/blob/master/docs/integrations.md#
+[blimp]: https://github.com/GetBlimp
+[djangorestframework-jwt]: https://github.com/GetBlimp/django-rest-framework-jwt