I wouldn't authenticate on every request. That seems like a lot
of unnecessary work. Just authenticate once and use Cookies/Authentication
Tokens to sustain the session. It's already built in so it's pretty easy to
do. They even have a code snippet that shows how to use a special HTTP
Header to keep this authenticated session going without relying on dumping
the {% csrf_token %} on every response. It's written in Javascript but I'm
sure you could take the same approach and include it in your Desktop
application.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Mike <mike.t...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm working on a desktop app that will communicate with a server.  I have
> some experience with Django and with the user authentication system but I
> haven't deployed a Django app with authentication yet.  I'm planning to use
> django for the server side component of this desktop app and the two will
> communicate over SSL with JSON.  Using Django, I can authenticate users and
> hold onto the cookie on the client side for authenticating the views that
> need it before they return their JSON.  I could also send the userid and
> password in every GET or POST.  Which method is better?  Is either more
> secure?  Using cookies I can take advantage of stuff built into Django such
> as the @login_required() decorator.
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