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A bearer token gives the bearer access to confidential resources (so you should keep them secure like you would with a user name and password). They are usually produced by some large authentication scheme (like the various OAuth 2.0 flows), but you are sometimes given then directly.

Usage

req_auth_bearer_token(req, token)

Arguments

req

A httr2 request object.

token

A bearer token

Value

A modified HTTP request.

See also

See RFC 6750 for more details about bearer token usage with OAuth 2.0.

Examples

req <- request("http://example.com") |> req_auth_bearer_token("sdaljsdf093lkfs")
req
#> <httr2_request>
#> GET http://example.com
#> Headers:
#>Authorization: '<REDACTED>'
#> Body: empty

# httr2 does its best to redact the Authorization header so that you don't
# accidentally reveal confidential data. Use `redact_headers` to reveal it:
print(req, redact_headers = FALSE)
#> <httr2_request>
#> GET http://example.com
#> Headers:
#>Authorization: 'Bearer sdaljsdf093lkfs'
#> Body: empty