[SOLVED] jwt.exceptions.DecodeError: Invalid header padding error

 from fastapi import FastAPI, Response, Request, Depends from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse import jwt app = FastAPI() def generate_jwt(): return jwt.encode({'id':'test'}, key = '123', algorithm='HS256') def decode_token(token): payload = jwt.decode(token, key = '123', algorithm='HS256') return payload @app.get('/test') async def test(response: Response): response = HTMLResponse(open('test.html', 'r').read()) response.set_cookie(key="fakesession", value=generate_jwt()) return response async def read_token(request : Request): token = request.cookies.get('fakesession') if not token: return False return decode_token(token) @app.get('/protected') async def protected(token : str = Depends(read_token)): return token 

def generate_jwt(): return jwt.encode({'id':'test'}, key = '123', algorithm='HS256').decode('utf-8')