Question

Why does my Hugging Face inference endpoint fail after enabling token authentication

Answer 1

Oh , maybe you aren't sending the token correctly .When the auth is enabled , every request needs a barrier token in the header . so if your code looks like this :
import requests

response = requests.post(url, json={"inputs": "hello"})

 It needs to be more like this
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer hf_yourTokenHere"}

response = requests.post(url, json={"inputs": "hello"}, headers=headers)