Symfony 2 controller test can't pass Authorization header

Question

I have an HTTP API written in Symfony 2 and I'm writing some functional tests for it.

I noticed that when I try to send an Authorization header it is not received in the controller when I log the received headers.

In the test controller:

$client = self::createClient();
$client->insulate();

$headers = array(
    'Authorization' => "Bearer {$accessToken}",
    'CONTENT_TYPE' => 'application/json',
);

$client->request('DELETE', "/auth", array(), array(), $headers );

In the tested controller:

print_r( $request->headers );

Output:

Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\HeaderBag Object
(
    [headers:protected] => Array
        (
            [host] => Array
                (
                    [0] => localhost
                )

            [user-agent] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Symfony2 BrowserKit
                )

            [accept] => Array
                (
                    [0] => text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
                )

            [accept-language] => Array
                (
                    [0] => en-us,en;q=0.5
                )

            [accept-charset] => Array
                (
                    [0] => ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
                )

            [content-type] => Array
                (
                    [0] => application/json
                )

            [x-php-ob-level] => Array
                (
                    [0] => 0
                )

        )

    [cacheControl:protected] => Array
        (
        )

)

How can I pass in the Authorization header?

Luke · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-21T22:23:35.887

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It seems that for Symfony 2 you need to use the headers which are outlined in the $_SERVER documentation [1].

This wasn't very clear from the documentation but in my case I had to do the following:

$headers = array(
    'HTTP_AUTHORIZATION' => "Bearer {$accessToken}",
    'CONTENT_TYPE' => 'application/json',
);

$client->request('DELETE', "/auth", array(), array(), $headers );

Notice the HTTP_AUTHORIZATION vs Authorization header used in the question. This fixed the issue for me.

[1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php

edited Jan 21 '14 at 22:23

answered Jan 21 '14 at 21:17

Luke

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That worked for me, now does anyone know how to send custom headers through the test client? My application is sending an API-key and its not forwarding. – Jon McEroy Mar 24 '15 at 15:49
Are you behind a load balancer or some other reverse proxy? – Luke Mar 25 '15 at 07:04
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Custom headers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11549672/symfony-functional-test-custom-headers-not-passing-through – Felix Aballi Jan 11 '17 at 18:36
Works with Symfony 4 as well – Ka. Oct 29 '19 at 20:44
Works with Symfony 5 as well – Symen Timmermans Jun 08 '21 at 12:14
¿Works with Symfony 6 as well? – terox Feb 23 '22 at 15:39

Symfony 2 controller test can't pass Authorization header

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