git api returning 401 unauthorized error when doing axios call but curl returns 200

Question

axios call to git api returns 401, but curling the same url with the same headers returns 200 with the correct data, anybody know why?

Axios call returns 401

let headers = {
    "Authorization": "token abc",
    "Accept" : "application/json",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

    await axios.get("SOME_GIT_API_URL", headers)
      .then((data) => {
        console.log(data.data)

      })
      .catch((err) => {
        console.log(err)
      })

Curl returns 200

curl --location --request GET "SOME_GIT_API_URL" --header 'Authorization: token abc'

Answer 1

On axios, header key must be inside the object. Your header variable not included that 'header' as key. Example:

// header inside an object
const headerObject = {
  header: {
    "Authorization": "token abc",
    "Accept" : "application/json",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  }
}

await axios.get("SOME_GIT_API_URL", headerObject)
  .then((data) => {
    console.log(data.data)
  })
  .catch((err) => {
     console.log(err)
  })