django-rest-framework - POST Request returns "Method \"GET\" not allowed."

Question

I have set up django-rest-auth as per the installation tutorial, yet I am not able to use the login API endpoint. When I send a POST request with the correct information, I receive a 405 status error in response with "Method "GET" not allowed."

However, when I navigate to the actual URL and POST it from the online form, it works fine and returns a token.

Help?!

Example with Postman:

https://i.imgur.com/574rERm.png

Example with Axios:

axios.post('http://----.com/api/accounts/login/', data: {'username': ---, 'password': ---})
.then(function (response) {console.log(response);})
.catch(function (response) {console.log(response);})

UPDATE:

This seems to be an issue with possibly Heroku or Gunicorn? The website is deployed on Heroku using Gunicorn, but all POST Requests are being received as GET requests.

Answer 1

For anyone coming across this strange phenomenon of a POST request turning into a GET request mysteriously...

I'm using Django + DRF on Heroku. The problem was so simple it made me want to laugh and cry at the same time.

Heroku redirects requests to http://example.com to http://www.example.com, and this redirection involves a GET request. As a result, the POST request is received as a GET request without any of the headers or body that was initially present.

All of that work and frustration just for a missing 'www'. Hope this helps somebody in the future!

https://stackoverflow.com/a/23688973/8407856