JWT token loaded from a file

[Naveen]

It would be more useful to have (the bulky) JWT token be loaded from a file.

[Frank Lazzarini]

You could use bash to read the token from a file

http --auth-type=jwt --auth='$(cat mytoken.txt):' example.org

[Naveen]

Thanks! BTW, It worked after removing single quotes.

[Hoat Le]

thank you @flazzarini for your help.

@metanav: I've added the question here to FAQs section at https://github.com/teracyhq/httpie-jwt-auth/tree/develop#faqs

[Evgeny Bobkin]

If you use bash shell you should use double quotes (") instead of single ones('), it is very crutial here!

You could use bash to read the token from a file

http --auth-type=jwt --auth="$(cat mytoken.txt):" example.org

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6697753/difference-between-single-and-double-quotes-in-bash

[Hoat Le]

thank you @ibqn, I've updated the README file to use double quotation marks

[dragon788]

It would be nice to have the simple --auth=@filename syntax like httpie uses for loading JSON data, but the "$(cat auth.token)" works pretty well. One thing to note is that if you were using something like http POST https://my.domain.com/auth/gettoken | jq .id_token > auth.token you might have issues. In this case you need to pass the -r to jq so that it removes double quotes before outputting the value, otherwise in the file you have literally "veryLongJWTString" with the double quotes, which makes it not a valid JWT anymore, so jq -r .id_token > auth.token will get you a valid JWT you can use with "$(cat auth.token)" and this plugin.