amazon web services - How to access http headers in custom authorizer AWS lambda function

Question

From API Gateway, I created a custom authorizer for my API using Lambda function in python. API Gateway hands over the incoming auth token using a header I configure(method.request.header.Authorization). However I also need the other headers of the original http request inside my lambda function. How do I access them? I did not see the headers on event object input to my lambda function.

Note that this is not a duplicate of How to access HTTP headers for request to AWS API Gateway using Lambda?. The question is about custom authorizer lambda function. I do not see any configuration option to pass the incoming http headers to authorizer lambda function.

As per AWS Documentation, API Gateway calls Custom Authorizer with below input. Base on the the below, I assume my ask is not possible. But want to check if there is a workaround.

{
    "type":"TOKEN",
    "authorizationToken":"",
    "methodArn":"arn:aws:execute-api:<regionId>:<accountId>:<apiId>/<stage>/<method>/<resourcePath>"
}  

Answer 1

This is now possible by using an Authoriser of type 'Request' instead of Token

Full details are here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/apigateway-use-lambda-authorizer.html

Fundamentally, all headers are passed in the event object for a Request authorisation

ie headers object on event

    "headers": {
        "X-wibble": "111",
        "X-wobble": "222",
        "x-amzn-ssl-client-hello": "*Deleted*",
        "Via": "1.1 .cloudfront.net (CloudFront)",
        "CloudFront-Is-Desktop-Viewer": "true",
        "CloudFront-Is-SmartTV-Viewer": "false",
        "CloudFront-Forwarded-Proto": "https",
        "X-Forwarded-For": "*Deleted*",
        "CloudFront-Viewer-Country": "GB",
        "Accept": "*/*",
        "User-Agent": "curl/7.55.1",
        "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=*Deleted*",
        "Host": "*Deleted*.execute-api.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com",
        "X-Forwarded-Proto": "https",
        "X-Amz-Cf-Id": "*Deleted*",
        "CloudFront-Is-Tablet-Viewer": "false",
        "X-Forwarded-Port": "443",
        "CloudFront-Is-Mobile-Viewer": "false"
    }