How do I perform `Bearer` authentication with <#C0...

# ktor

[addamsson]

How do I perform Bearer authentication with #ktor ? I see that there is basic, jtw, etc, but there is no option for simply checking the bearer token.

[Orhan Tozan]

I think you have to manually set the header for that.

[Rachid]

I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly, but shouldn't the OAuth Provider be responsible for authentication?

[Rachid]

Where for JWT you can do this in KTor itself, but for OAuth this will be done by the 3rd party

[addamsson]

no, i want to use Bearer tokens

[addamsson]

I'm also using JJTW and ktor uses Auth0's JWT implementation so it is not an option for me

[addamsson]

it is also very hard to customize

[addamsson]

i want to use JWTs for form authentication and API authentication as well

[Dennis]

if you’re using JWT then you can hook into jwt’s authHeader to return an HttpAuthHeader - doesn’t matter where you get it from. You can extract it from the ApplicationCall.

[Dennis]

if you’re not using JWT, then you probably have to write your own AuthenticationProvider (which is not very hard)

[addamsson]

I'm using JWT, but not the one provided by Ktor (i'm using JJWT)

[Dennis]

on the ktor side?

[addamsson]

yep