getBearerTokenFromAuthorizationHeader()
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Warning: This API is now obsolete.
Use the
credentials
method ofHttpAuthService
from@backstage/backend-plugin-api
instead
Parses the given authorization header and returns the bearer token, or undefined if no bearer token is given.
Signature:
function getBearerTokenFromAuthorizationHeader(authorizationHeader: unknown): string | undefined;
Parameters
Parameter |
Type |
Description |
---|---|---|
authorizationHeader |
unknown |
string | undefined
Remarks
This function is explicitly built to tolerate bad inputs safely, so you may call it directly with e.g. the output of req.header('authorization')
without first checking that it exists.