diff --git a/scraper/src/header_inspector_middleware.py b/scraper/src/header_inspector_middleware.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..227565b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scraper/src/header_inspector_middleware.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import logging
+
+from scrapy import signals
+
+
+class HeaderInspectionMiddleware:
+    """
+    Middleware to inspect headers of outgoing requests and incoming responses
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.spider = None
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):
+        middleware = cls()
+        crawler.signals.connect(middleware.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)
+        return middleware
+
+    def spider_opened(self, spider):
+        self.spider = spider
+
+    def process_request(self, request, spider):
+        """
+        This method is called for each request that goes through the download middleware.
+        """
+        logging.debug("\nOutgoing request to: %s", request.url)
+        logging.debug("\nHeaders: %s", request.headers)
diff --git a/scraper/src/index.py b/scraper/src/index.py
index 9eaa963..f059cf8 100644
--- a/scraper/src/index.py
+++ b/scraper/src/index.py
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
 from .documentation_spider import DocumentationSpider
 from .strategies.default_strategy import DefaultStrategy
 from .custom_downloader_middleware import CustomDownloaderMiddleware
+from .header_inspector_middleware import HeaderInspectionMiddleware
 from .custom_dupefilter import CustomDupeFilter
 from .config.browser_handler import BrowserHandler
-from .strategies.algolia_settings import AlgoliaSettings
 
 try:
     # disable boto (S3 download)
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ def run_config(config):
 
     root_module = 'src.' if __name__ == '__main__' else 'scraper.src.'
     DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES_PATH = root_module + 'custom_downloader_middleware.' + CustomDownloaderMiddleware.__name__
+    HEADER_MIDDLEWARES_PATH = root_module + 'header_inspector_middleware.' + HeaderInspectionMiddleware.__name__
     DUPEFILTER_CLASS_PATH = root_module + 'custom_dupefilter.' + CustomDupeFilter.__name__
 
     headers = {
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ def run_config(config):
         'LOG_ENABLED': '1',
         'LOG_LEVEL': 'ERROR',
         'USER_AGENT': config.user_agent,
-        'DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES': {DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES_PATH: 900},
+        'DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES': {DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES_PATH: 900, HEADER_MIDDLEWARES_PATH: 901},
         # Need to be > 600 to be after the redirectMiddleware
         'DUPEFILTER_USE_ANCHORS': config.use_anchors,
         # Use our custom dupefilter in order to be scheme agnostic regarding link provided
diff --git a/scraper/src/tests/config_loader/auth_test.py b/scraper/src/tests/config_loader/auth_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c149502
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scraper/src/tests/config_loader/auth_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+import os
+import pdb
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+
+import pytest
+from scrapy.http import Request
+from scrapy.spidermiddlewares.httperror import HttpError
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def config():
+    return MagicMock(
+        index_name="test_index",
+        start_urls=[{"url": "http://example.com"}],
+        allowed_domains=["example.com"],
+        stop_urls=[],
+        js_render=False,
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def env_vars(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DOCSEARCH_BASICAUTH_USERNAME", "testuser")
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DOCSEARCH_BASICAUTH_PASSWORD", "testpass")
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DOCSEARCH_AUTH_DOMAIN", "http://example.com")
+
+
+def test_spider_auth_attributes(config, env_vars):
+    """Test that DocumentationSpider correctly sets up Basic Auth attributes"""
+    from scraper.src.documentation_spider import DocumentationSpider
+
+    spider = DocumentationSpider(config=config, typesense_helper=None, strategy=None)
+
+    assert spider.http_user == "testuser"
+    assert spider.http_pass == "testpass"
+    assert spider.http_auth_domain == "http://example.com"