Reading Authorization header in pre-request script

[tha-dude (David Koch)]

Hello, I set up collection-level OAuth2 authentification with bearer token. This works well but I would like to log the decoded token to the console in a pre-request script in order to facilitate debugging claims issues etc. No issue decoding a token, however, I can’t seem to access it.

pm.request.auth is undefined since authentication is inherited, the various headers related properties/methods as well since, again, I don’t set any headers manually.

How can I do this?

Thank you!

[sahuvikramp (Vikram Sahu)]

@tha-dude I have not tried this but got a reference to similar type of question within the community.

I hope these will help you in some way.

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@odanylewycz thanks a lot for the response. I did find a solution based on the example and some of the links your provided. It’s a super-simple one-line pre-request script: pm.variables.set('mytoken', pm.request.auth.oauth2.get('accessToken')); … and then i use use {{mytoken}} in the body where i need it. Thanks!

[tha-dude (David Koch)]

Hello, thank you for the response however this does not work when the authentication is inherited from the collection for instance. pm.request.auth is not defined in that case.

How can I programatically read the authentication credentials from a request before the request is made?