From f18e0b663d538552adaa26110d17ccd651e9b5ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shawn Niederriter <shawn.niederriter@temple.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 14:38:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixing token parser error

---
 sanic/request.py | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sanic/request.py b/sanic/request.py
index 4a15c22f..30327214 100644
--- a/sanic/request.py
+++ b/sanic/request.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class Request(dict):
     __slots__ = (
         'app', 'headers', 'version', 'method', '_cookies', 'transport',
         'body', 'parsed_json', 'parsed_args', 'parsed_form', 'parsed_files',
-        '_ip', '_parsed_url',
+        '_ip', '_parsed_url', '_token', 
     )
 
     def __init__(self, url_bytes, headers, version, method, transport):
@@ -77,10 +77,8 @@ class Request(dict):
 
         :return: token related to request
         """
-        auth_header = self.headers.get('Authorization')
-        if auth_header is not None:
-            return auth_header.split()[1]
-        return auth_header
+        self._token = getattr(self, '_token', self.headers.get('Authorization'))
+        return self._token
 
     @property
     def form(self):