def is_authenticated(self, request, **kwargs):
        # Cargo-culted from Django 1.3/1.4's ``django/middleware/csrf.py``.
        # We can't just use what's there, since the return values will be
        # wrong.
        # We also can't risk accessing ``request.POST``, which will break with
        # the serialized bodies.
        if request.method in ('GET', 'HEAD', 'OPTIONS', 'TRACE'):
            return request.user.is_authenticated()

        if getattr(request, '_dont_enforce_csrf_checks', False):
            return request.user.is_authenticated()

        csrf_token = _sanitize_token(request.COOKIES.get(settings.CSRF_COOKIE_NAME, ''))

        if request.is_secure():
            referer = request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER')

            if referer is None:
                return False

            good_referer = 'https://%s/' % request.get_host()

            if not same_origin(referer, good_referer):
                return False

        request_csrf_token = request.META.get('HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN', '')

        if not constant_time_compare(request_csrf_token, csrf_token):
            return False

        return request.user.is_authenticated()
Checks to make sure the user is logged in & has a Django session.
dataset/ETHPy150Open django-tastypie/django-tastypie/tastypie/authentication.py/SessionAuthentication.is_authenticated