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Batsman
Batsman

Reputation: 87

OAuth2.0 access token in header

I'm a student working on a PHP laravel project to secure an API with OAuth2.0. I'm using Postman to test my API, when I put my access token in my URL like this:

URL/?access_token=... all works fine.

Now I want to use the Header to pass the access_token, I tried:

Key: access_token with Value:(the token)

Key: Authorization with Value:(the token)

Key: Authorization with Value:(Bearer +the token)

None of these seems to work.Does anyone knows what I'm doing wrong or what I'm missing? When I search for the right answer i find that Key: Authorization with Value:(Bearer +the token) needs to work fine.

Thx in advance!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2723

Answers (2)

Andrei Dragotoniu
Andrei Dragotoniu

Reputation: 6335

it's very simple actually.

you create an Authorization key and the value of that key is token type space and the actual token. if you have bearer then it "Bearer token_value". I am covering this in detail in one of my articles and I am using Postman as well.

here is the article : https://eidand.com/2015/03/28/authorization-system-with-owin-web-api-json-web-tokens/

go down to section 2 which is one dealing with the Resource server. You'll see there Postman screenshots with examples of how to setup everything you need.

Upvotes: 0

Dinesh Kumar
Dinesh Kumar

Reputation: 1742

I use access token in my request header as:

Key: Authorization

Value: Bearer {{AccessToken}}

Also depends upon what token type are you getting back. Look for token_type key when you acquire an access token. in my case it is "Bearer" so using it with access token.

Upvotes: 3

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