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getBearerTokenFromAuthorizationHeader()

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Warning: This API is now obsolete.

Use the credentials method of HttpAuthService 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

ParameterTypeDescription
authorizationHeaderunknown

Returns:

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.