From 8dadeddb357a94c8f0ed4c544de75c5485793d44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Fu-Hinthorn <13333726+hinthornw@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 19:40:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update headers type

---
 docs/docs/concepts/auth.md            | 2 +-
 docs/docs/how-tos/auth/custom_auth.md | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/docs/concepts/auth.md b/docs/docs/concepts/auth.md
index 09526f223..875e112c9 100644
--- a/docs/docs/concepts/auth.md
+++ b/docs/docs/concepts/auth.md
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ auth = Auth()
 @auth.authenticate
 async def authenticate(headers: dict) -> Auth.types.MinimalUserDict:
     # Validate credentials (e.g., API key, JWT token)
-    api_key = headers.get("x-api-key")
+    api_key = headers.get(b"x-api-key")
     if not api_key or not is_valid_key(api_key):
         raise Auth.exceptions.HTTPException(
             status_code=401,
diff --git a/docs/docs/how-tos/auth/custom_auth.md b/docs/docs/how-tos/auth/custom_auth.md
index e7d0f2f24..76dc11bf0 100644
--- a/docs/docs/how-tos/auth/custom_auth.md
+++ b/docs/docs/how-tos/auth/custom_auth.md
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ To leverage custom authentication and access user-level metadata in your deploym
 
     @auth.authenticate # (1)!
     async def authenticate(headers: dict) -> Auth.types.MinimalUserDict:
-        api_key = headers.get("x-api-key")
+        api_key = headers.get(b"x-api-key")
         if not api_key or not is_valid_key(api_key):
             raise Auth.exceptions.HTTPException(status_code=401, detail="Invalid API key")