# Passing Bearer Token "Can't Convert Access Token to JSON"

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**Created:** [12 July 2021 13:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/passing-bearer-token-cant-convert-access-token-to-json/48314 "2021-07-12T13:03:48Z")\
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I put the token in header “Authorization”:”Bearer “ + mytoken

I do not include application/json header.

I use default settings in http request node except my return type “a parsed json object” which is expected return type. Can leave default UTF-8 to test

What I found helpful is to use PostMan. Get it working there and then do Code -\> Dart - http and copy the Uri.parse for the url and copy var headers section minus the Cookie.  
I then add this to a function node prior to my http node.  
msg.url=“…”;  
msg.headers={…}

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