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Running Plane behind an API gateway (Gravitee, Kong, Apigee, Azure APIM…) is a common way to keep the real Plane API key out of every client: the gateway holds the key and injects X-Api-Key itself, and each client gets only a gateway consumer key. That client key has to travel in the gateway's own header (X-Gravitee-Api-Key, apikey, Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key…), but the SDK always sends api_key as X-Api-Key, so today it cannot be used behind such a gateway without monkey-patching _headers.

This adds an optional api_key_header to Configuration and PlaneClient:

client = PlaneClient(base_url="https://gateway.example.com/plane", api_key=gateway_key,
                     api_key_header="X-Gravitee-Api-Key")
  • Default "X-Api-Key" — no behaviour change for existing callers.
  • Applied at both header sites: BaseResource._headers (v1) and V2Transport._headers (v2).
  • A blank header name raises ConfigurationError.
  • access_token (Bearer) is unaffected.

Tests: tests/unit/test_api_key_header.py — 5 tests (default, custom header on v1 and v2 with no X-Api-Key left, pass-through from PlaneClient, blank refused, access token unaffected). Unit suite: 104 passed, 302 skipped (network).

A follow-up PR to plane-mcp-server exposes this as PLANE_API_KEY_HEADER.

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  • New Features
    • API-key authentication can now use a custom request header. The default remains X-Api-Key, and whitespace around a configured header name is trimmed.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Blank or whitespace-only API-key header names now produce a configuration error. Bearer-token authentication behavior is unchanged.

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The SDK accepts a configurable API-key header name, validates and passes it through configuration, and uses it in v1 and v2 request headers. The default remains X-Api-Key. Bearer-token header behavior remains unchanged.

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API-Key Header Configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure and validate header name
plane/config.py, plane/client/plane_client.py, tests/unit/test_api_key_header.py
Configuration and PlaneClient accept an api_key_header setting. Configuration rejects blank names and strips surrounding whitespace. Tests cover the default, client pass-through, and blank-name validation.
Apply header name to requests
plane/api/base_resource.py, plane/api/v2/_kernel/transport.py, tests/unit/test_api_key_header.py
The v1 and v2 header builders use the configured name for API-key authentication. Tests cover custom header names and confirm that bearer-token authentication omits the API-key header.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7b153

Some custom header settings can prevent requests from succeeding or break JSON requests. Validate header names and reject conflicts with request metadata before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7b153

Existing clients keep the same API-key header, but clients that select a custom header depend on that name being suitable for both the gateway and the SDK’s request headers. Gateway handling has not been verified.

Retained concerns

  • Low · security · observed: A caller-selected API-key header can shadow SDK-managed protocol headers or use Authorization as the API-key header. The resulting credential interpretation and request behavior depend on the selected name and downstream handling.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed credential placement affects requests made through a client configured with a custom name, across its v1 resources and v2 transport. The evidence does not establish exposure beyond the configured destination or how many callers use that configuration.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — A configured reserved header name can replace an SDK-created header. The supplied evidence does not show attacker control of the configuration or establish a successful authentication bypass.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — The custom header lets a gateway distinguish a client credential from the Plane API key it is intended to inject. Whether a deployed gateway consumes or strips that client credential before forwarding, and whether Plane authenticates the resulting request, remain unverified.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define the supported header-name contract, including treatment of SDK-managed headers, and document the gateway’s responsibility to consume the client key and inject the Plane key without forwarding unintended credentials.
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Review comments at @plane/config.py:
- Around line 47-49: Update the api_key_header validation in the configuration
initializer to validate the stripped value as an HTTP header field name and
raise ConfigurationError for invalid names, while preserving valid names such as
the default X-Api-Key.
- Around line 47-49: Update the api_key_header validation in the configuration
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if not api_key_header or not api_key_header.strip():
raise ConfigurationError("'api_key_header' must be a non-empty header name")
self.api_key_header = api_key_header.strip()

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Reject invalid HTTP header names during configuration.

A value such as X Custom Key passes the current check. When api_key is set, both request builders use it as the header name. Requests can then fail during HTTP header serialization before the server receives the request. The default X-Api-Key remains valid, so this affects callers that explicitly configure an invalid name. Validate the stripped name as an HTTP header field name and raise ConfigurationError during configuration.

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Review comment at @plane/config.py around lines 47 - 49:
Update the api_key_header validation in the configuration initializer to
validate the stripped value as an HTTP header field name and raise
ConfigurationError for invalid names, while preserving valid names such as the
default X-Api-Key.

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sed -n '45,135p' plane/api/v2/_kernel/transport.py
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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- v1 request path ---'
rg -n -A24 -B8 'requests\.(request|get|post|put|patch|delete)|_headers\(' plane/api/base_resource.py
printf '%s\n' '--- v2 request path ---'
rg -n -A28 -B10 'requests\.(request|get|post|put|patch|delete)|_headers\(' plane/api/v2/_kernel/transport.py
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rg -n -A4 -B4 'requests|httpx|urllib3' pyproject.toml poetry.lock requirements*.txt setup.cfg setup.py 2>/dev/null || true
printf '%s\n' '--- installed requests contract probe ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
import requests
from requests import Request

print("requests_version=", requests.__version__)
for key in ("Content-Type", "content-type", "CONTENT-TYPE"):
    headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json", key: "api-key"}
    prepared = Request("POST", "http://example.invalid", headers=headers, json={}).prepare()
    print(key, "input=", headers, "prepared=", dict(prepared.headers))
PY

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Reserve Content-Type for request metadata.

When api_key_header is Content-Type, both builders overwrite application/json. Case variants are also normalized by requests as the same header name, and the later API-key value wins. Reject Content-Type case-insensitively.

Suggested fix
-        if not api_key_header or not api_key_header.strip():
+        api_key_header = api_key_header.strip()
+        if not api_key_header:
             raise ConfigurationError("'api_key_header' must be a non-empty header name")
-        self.api_key_header = api_key_header.strip()
+        if api_key_header.lower() == "content-type":
+            raise ConfigurationError("'api_key_header' cannot be 'Content-Type'")
+        self.api_key_header = api_key_header
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if not api_key_header or not api_key_header.strip():
raise ConfigurationError("'api_key_header' must be a non-empty header name")
self.api_key_header = api_key_header.strip()
api_key_header = api_key_header.strip()
if not api_key_header:
raise ConfigurationError("'api_key_header' must be a non-empty header name")
if api_key_header.lower() == "content-type":
raise ConfigurationError("'api_key_header' cannot be 'Content-Type'")
self.api_key_header = api_key_header
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Review comment at @plane/config.py around lines 47 - 49:
Update the api_key_header validation in the configuration initializer to trim
the value, reject it when empty or equal to Content-Type case-insensitively, and
store the trimmed value otherwise.

After applying the fix, consider running `coderabbit review --agent` for local
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