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Provide support for header based auth

Status:: accepted
Deciders:: rishabhpoddar, porcellus
Proposed by:: porcellus
Created:: 2022-10-25

Context and Problem Statement#

There are a few circumstances where apps would want to use headers to authenticate or access the token on the client side.

Considered Options#

Integrated implementation
Guide

Decision Outcome#

We provide our own implementation since this seems to be a fairly common use-case and implementing this outside the SDK can get complicated.

Context and Problem Statement
Considered Options
Decision Outcome