# Secrets for custom inference endpoint?
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**Author:**  [@hbredin](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fhbredin)%5C
**Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fsecrets-for-custom-inference-endpoint%2F68264%2F1 "2024-01-07T15:28:42Z")
I am in the process of creating an inference endpoint of a gated model.
I went through the documentation but could not find a secure way of passing an authentication token to the custom handler.
It seems that secrets and environment variables are only available in spaces, but not in inference endpoints.
Here is [a link](https://huggingface.co/pyannote/speaker-diarization-3.1/blob/main/handler.py) to my custom handler and to the [corresponding space](https://huggingface.co/spaces/pyannote/pretrained-pipelines) that works fine thanks to a secret.
I could hard code the token and make the model private to avoid leaking the token but that does not seem right.
Any suggestion?
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**Author:**  [@julien-c](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fjulien-c)%5C
**Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fsecrets-for-custom-inference-endpoint%2F68264%2F2 "2024-01-08T16:59:12Z")
Secrets in Inference Endpoints are not available yet, but they’re on the roadmap
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**Author:**  [@system](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fsystem)%5C
**Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fsecrets-for-custom-inference-endpoint%2F68264%2F3 "2024-01-09T13:06:40Z")
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