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Gemini authenticates on x-goog-api-key, which google-genai sets from the
key the client is constructed with. The extra Authorization: Bearer <key>
added for base_url configurations made Google's frontend look for an OAuth2
principal instead of accepting the key, failing every request with:

401 UNAUTHENTICATED - API keys are not supported by this API. Expected
OAuth2 access token or other authentication credentials that assert a
principal.

custom_headers no longer depends on api_key being passed: it carries
X-Rootflo-Key, which identifies the caller to the proxy rather than
authenticating to Google, and the SDK resolves the key from the
environment on its own.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Gemini requests now authenticate through the supported Google API key header instead of sending the key as an Authorization bearer token.
    • Custom proxy headers are preserved whether the API key is supplied directly or through the environment.
    • Incoming caller Authorization tokens are no longer forwarded to language model providers.
    • Proxy authentication handling now consistently removes inbound Authorization headers while applying the configured provider credentials.

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Gemini proxy requests preserve custom headers and use the SDK’s x-goog-api-key authentication. The inference proxy now removes inbound Authorization headers centrally before provider credentials are applied.

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Proxy authentication

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Gemini client header wiring
flo_ai/flo_ai/llm/gemini_llm.py, flo_ai/tests/unit-tests/test_gemini_generation_config.py
Custom headers are applied when base_url is set, including when the API key comes from GOOGLE_API_KEY. Tests verify that no Authorization header is sent and that custom headers reach the proxy.
Centralized inbound header filtering
wavefront/server/modules/llm_inference_config_module/llm_inference_config_module/services/inference_proxy_service.py, wavefront/server/modules/llm_inference_config_module/tests/test_inference_proxy.py
prepare_headers removes inbound Authorization headers case-insensitively before provider authentication. Gemini and Azure OpenAI helpers no longer remove the header themselves. Tests cover multiple providers, header casing, and requests without an API key.

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The proxy no longer forwards caller bearer tokens and Gemini uses its API-key authentication path, with the relevant request-header behaviors covered by tests. No actionable merge risk remains.

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- Around line 116-125: Update _prepare_anthropic_auth and
_prepare_azure_openai_auth to remove every inbound Authorization header key
case-insensitively, regardless of its original spelling, before adding provider
credentials. Preserve the existing credential header assignments and avoid
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super().__init__(model, api_key, temperature, **kwargs)
# Configure http_options for proxy or custom base_url
http_options: types.HttpOptionsDict = {'base_url': base_url} if base_url else {}
if base_url and self.api_key:

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Can you see if we use this flow in VertexAI provider?

'transfer-encoding',
'connection',
'upgrade',
'authorization',

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This will remove it for all llms, is this expected ?

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