Flask werkzeug request.authorization is none but Authorization headers present

Question

I am POSTing some JSON data and adding an Authorization header. However, the request object does not have the correct authorization property. HTTP_AUTHORI

Answer 1

Your authorization header ('Authorization', 'testkey:') needs to be Base64 encoded and include Basic.

in python:

import base64
base64.b64encode('testkey:') # 'dGVzdGtleTo='

in javascript set your header using btoa:

'{"Authorization": "Basic ' + btoa('testkey:') + '"}' 
'{"Authorization": "Basic dGVzdGtleTo="}' 

In your case, the this will result in the header coming in as:

('Authorization', 'Basic dGVzdGtleTo=')