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Accessing user token in IBM Cloud Functions serverless app secured with OAuth user authentication

I am creating a serverless app using IBM Cloud Functions. My Cloud Functions API is secured with OAuth user authentication using an IBM Cloud App ID service. When a user logs into my app, an access token is generated by this service. I want to extract user data from that access token so that I can customize the user experience.

How do I access that token from within a Cloud Functions action that is coded for Node.js 10?

Example
The openwhisk webaction doc
https://github.com/apache/openwhisk/blob/master/docs/webactions.md
states that the following code

function main(params) {
    return { response: params };
}

generates the following response

{
  "response": {
    "__ow_method": "get",
    "__ow_headers": {
      "accept": "*/*",
      "connection": "close",
      "host": "172.17.0.1",
      "user-agent": "curl/7.43.0"
    },
    "__ow_path": ""
  }
}

From that data I should be able to get HTTP request details. Specifically, I should be able to get the Authorization header value off the "__ow_headers" property of the action argument (params).

However, the same code inside an IBM Cloud Functions web action generates nothing. Nothing exists on the params object.

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