How to use bearer tokens in MCP inspector

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I have a .net 8 web api solution that allows users to query for a list of teams they belong to (via ms graph) and then to retrieve a list of channel messages.

I'm now creating a POC where I'm converting this Api into an SSE server. the use case will be authenticated users interacting with our ai assitant requesting specific teams data. So far, I can get a list of tools via the mcp inspector tool. For now, i just want to be able to reuse a token that's generated for me via postman. FWIW everything works in postman where i make straight api calls using my tokens.

I tried to define an "Authorization" header and paste in a valid token but i'm getting errors. Here's a screen shot: