From 6360db290cde04a5cd40b614a5da2daf9b23f238 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Miro=20Hron=C4=8Dok?= <miro@hroncok.cz>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 21:56:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Document `keyword` variable of TokenAuthentication

---
 docs/api-guide/authentication.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md
index 06d043b6c5e..5568ed0c960 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md
@@ -143,6 +143,8 @@ For clients to authenticate, the token key should be included in the `Authorizat
 
     Authorization: Token 9944b09199c62bcf9418ad846dd0e4bbdfc6ee4b
 
+**Note:** If you want to use a different keyword in the header, such as `Bearer`, simply subclass `TokenAuthentication` and set the `keyword` class variable.
+
 If successfully authenticated, `TokenAuthentication` provides the following credentials.
 
 * `request.user` will be a Django `User` instance.