What is a simple way to return JWT Token from GenerateJWT Policy

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Why does OAuthV2 return a response without backend server, but GenerateJWT does not?

I am trying to use GenerateJWT and return the JWT Token. Ideally, I would like this too work in a similar fashion to OAuthV2, where the response is automatically generated.

Right now GenerateJWT just creates a variable with the JWT token, and it is up to me to find a way to return that as a response.

So what is the easiest way to return the JWT token. Ideally I don’t want to have to spin up a NodeJs server, the only possible solution I have found so far.

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Hi @Gary Sole ,

To return the JWT in a response (similar to what OAuthV2 does when you set GenerateResponse to “true”), you can use the Assign Message policy to return the JWT in a Header or in the Payload. You can do this in a “No Target” proxy. Place the AssignMessage after the JWT policy. Set AssignTo to “response”. For example, to return the JWT in a header, you can do the following, where the JWT variable is the part of the element that’s in curly braces:

<AssignMessage async="false" continueOnError="false" enabled="true" name="Assign-Message">
    <Set>
        <Headers>
            <Header name="x-JWT">{jwt.JWT-Generate-HS256.generated_jwt}</Header>
        </Headers>
    </Set>
    <IgnoreUnresolvedVariables>true</IgnoreUnresolvedVariables>
    <AssignTo createNew="false" transport="http" type="response"/>
</AssignMessage>

Here’s a screenshot: jwt-no-target.png

Hope that helps,

Will

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