Troubles when creating a new Header Auth Credential

[qualvalordex]

Bug Description

When I create a new Header Auth Credential

I put "testKey" on Name and 1234 on Value as follows:

But when I save, the value is replaced by something weird:

HELP

To Reproduce

1. Go to Credentials
2. Click on "Add Credential"
3. Fill name with "testKey" and value with "1234"
4. Click on Save
5. Click to view the Credential
6. Click on "expression" and see the value replaced

Expected behavior

The expected behavior is to save the correct value to BD.

Operating System

Ubuntu 22.04

n8n Version

1.57.0

Node.js Version

20.15.0

Database

PostgreSQL

Execution mode

main (default)

[Joffcom]

Hey @qualvalordex,

We have created an internal ticket to look into this which we will be tracking as "GHC-217"

[Joffcom]

Hey @qualvalordex

This is intentional the blank value we use is what we show to the front end so that the credentials can't be viewed.

Is this causing an issue when using the credential?

[Joffcom]

Moving to closed as working as expected