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My question: How do you use username & password variables in the oauth2 login window?
Details (like screenshots): I’ve got usernames & passwords of test accounts saved as variables, but I’d like to use them in our oauth2 flow to get authorization tokens. The login popup that appears when I hit the “Get New Access Token” button seems like it can only accept hand-typed credentials. How do you use the oauth2 auth flow when you’re running an entire folder or collection that depends on that token? Does it have to be a manual process every time?
How I found the problem: Our plain old cookie-based authorization is just a POST to a /login endpoint with a {{username}} and {{password}} body, so when this request is run at the beginning of a collection run, it sets the cookie, then the rest of the requests in the collection run with that session cookie. There doesn’t seem to be an equivalent way to “pass a stored username & password” into the oauth2 window.
I’ve already tried: Googling & stack-exchanging.
