API Manager passing JWT to backend service

Question

A backend service needs to know the user for the service call. Reading through the API 1.6.0 documentation I have configured it to generate JWT and removed and republished my services as stated. Running tests, I am not seeing the JWT being passed to the backed service in the response headers in Fiddler. I am not using the ESB or Identity services from WSO2.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

JWT information should be passed in the header under the parameter X-JWT-Assertion. The Content is been encoded. Use TCPMon to intercept the request and see if the API Manager is actually passing the JWT. This would be a good starting point to debug.