Adding authorization to the headers

Question

I have the following code:

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AuthenticationHeaderValue authHeaders = new AuthenticationHeaderValue(\"OAuth2\", Contract.AccessToken);
string result = await         


        

Answer 1

Had a similar issue when getting AuthenticationHeaderValue to work with my requests. I was also using JWT JsonWebToken from GitHub. I was able to get a token from the API, but was struggling to use it in other GETs and POSTs.

var jwt = JsonWebToken.Encode(token, APISECRET, JwtHashAlgorithm.HS256);
var tk = GetTokenFromApi(); // basically returns an encrypted string.

Manually using WebRequest: Which worked fine.

request.ContentType = "application/json";
request.Method = "POST";
request.Headers.Set("Authorization", string.Format("Bearer {0}", tk));

When we switched to an HttpClient, and used the AuthenticationHeaderValue, could not figure out how to set it up correctly.After looking at the request string, i saw it added the "Authorization" for me. Played around with parameters, and this finally this worked.

 var authenticationHeaderValue = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", tk);