title: Customize the Authorization HTTP header
body: <p>I need to authenticate a client when he sends a request to an API. The client has an API-token and I was thinking about using the standard <code>Authorization</code> header for sending the token to the server.</p>
  <p>Normally this header is used for <code>Basic</code> and <code>Digest</code> authentication. But I don't know if I'm allowed to customize the value of this header and use a custom authentication scheme, e.g:</p>
  <pre><code>Authorization: Token 1af538baa9045a84c0e889f672baf83ff24
  </code></pre>
  <p>Would you recommend this or not? Or is there a better approach for sending the token?</p>