Django REST Angular $http 403 Status

Question

So I have a very simple API endpoint that is supposed to determine if a user is logged in. I did decide to make it a POST request for the sake of hiding the response from being accessed in the browser

class Check(APIView):

    def post(self, request):

        print request.user

        if request.user.is_authenticated():

            # a successful response for logged in

            return Response(status = HTTP_200_OK)


        # return an error status code for not logged in

        return Response(status = HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED)

When logged out, I get AnonymousUser in the console and a 401 status code as expected. However when logged in as a superuser or any other user, I get no print output and a 403 status code. This indicates that for some reason the entire callback is never entered. I've been told that it is an issue of permissions but I have AllowAny enabled. Do you guys have any ideas?

REST_FRAMEWORK = {

    'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': [
        'rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer'
    ],

    'DEFAULT_PARSER_CLASSES': [
        'rest_framework.parsers.JSONParser'
    ],

    'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': [
        'rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication',
        'rest_framework.authentication.BasicAuthentication'
    ],

    'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': [
        'rest_framework.permissions.AllowAny',
    ]

}