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Send token in header to external validation service

What does this MR do?

This MR adds support for sending an X-Gitlab-Token token in requests to the external validation service. The value is taken from the EXTERNAL_VALIDATION_SERVICE_TOKEN environment variable and the header is only sent if a the variable has a value.

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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

Conformity

Availability and Testing

Security

If this MR contains changes to processing or storing of credentials or tokens, authorization and authentication methods and other items described in the security review guidelines:

  • Label as security and @ mention @gitlab-com/gl-security/appsec
  • The MR includes necessary changes to maintain consistency between UI, API, email, or other methods
  • Security reports checked/validated by a reviewer from the AppSec team

Closes #326248

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