Why Use X-API-KEY Instead of Authorization: Bearer for API Authentication?

·May 12, 2025 06:57 PM

Why X-API-KEY: $API_KEY instead of Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY ? I was a bit surprised to not see an Authorization header. Having that is a bit easier for tools like Insomnia.

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Why Use X-API-KEY Instead of Authorization: Bearer for API Authentication?

Nick D.

·May 12, 2025 06:57 PM

Why X-API-KEY: $API_KEY instead of Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY ? I was a bit surprised to not see an Authorization header. Having that is a bit easier for tools like Insomnia.

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Sarafina S.
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We use Bearer for our normal client/server authentication and wanted to make sure this auth scheme is very clearly differentiated

Sarafina S.
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We use Bearer for our normal client/server authentication and wanted to make sure this auth scheme is very clearly differentiated