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Appreciation for proxied calls handling via `additionalHeaders`

TLDR Janaka expressed gratitude for the additionalHeaders feature in SearchClient. Jason noted other users have found it useful too.

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Jan 16, 2022 (24 months ago)

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Janaka

07:24 PM

Feedback: thanks for including additionalHeaders as a client (SearchClient) config option. I don't know what the original use case(s) were but it enabled mine to handle auth by proxying calls to Typesense via my own backend so I can integrate Auth0.

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Jason

08:04 PM

Great to hear that! Another user asked for this to do a similar thing with Cloudflare access

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