Bearer authentication, private repo + Tile URL (tilejson) + folium TileLayer

[ivandorte]

I deployed titiler in a private repository (HuggingFace, dockerfile) and managed to make a GET request to the tilejson endpoint (stac) using httpx Python lib (client.get...) and the HF token (as headers). I want to use the generated Tile URL with TileLayer (folium), but I get 404 not found (obviously). I can't get folium to work with this "private" Tile URL. I tried to add the access_token param to the URL, but nothing.
Has anyone ever experienced this problem? How can I resolve?
Thanks,
Ivan