diff --git a/.github/workflows/stage.yml b/.github/workflows/stage.yml
index 68e94b4..1be66be 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/stage.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/stage.yml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Publish package
         env:
-          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_MAVEN_TOKEN }}
         run: npm publish
 
       - name: Commit and push package modifications
diff --git a/src/providers/python_controller.js b/src/providers/python_controller.js
index 770a7f9..1167c14 100644
--- a/src/providers/python_controller.js
+++ b/src/providers/python_controller.js
@@ -5,6 +5,22 @@ import {EOL} from "os";
 import {getCustom} from "../tools.js";
 
 
+function getPipFreezeOutput() {
+	return "EXHORT_PIP_FREEZE" in process.env && process.env["EXHORT_PIP_FREEZE"].trim() != ""  ? new Buffer(process.env["EXHORT_PIP_FREEZE"],'base64').toString('ascii') : execSync(`${this.pathToPipBin} freeze --all`, err => {
+		if (err) {
+			throw new Error('fail invoking pip freeze to fetch all installed dependencies in environment --> ' + err.message)
+		}
+	}).toString();
+}
+
+function getPipShowOutput(depNames) {
+	return "EXHORT_PIP_SHOW" in process.env && process.env["EXHORT_PIP_SHOW"].trim() != ""  ? new Buffer(process.env["EXHORT_PIP_SHOW"],'base64').toString('ascii')  : execSync(`${this.pathToPipBin} show ${depNames}`, err => {
+		if (err) {
+			throw new Error('fail invoking pip show to fetch all installed dependencies metadata --> ' + err.message)
+		}
+	}).toString();
+}
+
 /** @typedef {{name: string, version: string, dependencies: DependencyEntry[]}} DependencyEntry */
 
 
@@ -144,20 +160,12 @@ export default class Python_controller {
 	}
 	#getDependenciesImpl(includeTransitive) {
 		let dependencies = new Array()
-		let freezeOutput = execSync(`${this.pathToPipBin} freeze --all`, err =>{
-			if (err) {
-				throw new Error('fail invoking pip freeze to fetch all installed dependencies in environment --> ' + err.message)
-			}
-		}).toString();
+		let freezeOutput = getPipFreezeOutput.call(this);
 		//debug
 		// freezeOutput = "alternative pip freeze output goes here for debugging"
 		let lines = freezeOutput.split(EOL)
 		let depNames = lines.map( line => getDependencyName(line)).join(" ")
-		let pipShowOutput = execSync(`${this.pathToPipBin} show ${depNames}`, err =>{
-			if (err) {
-				throw new Error('fail invoking pip show to fetch all installed dependencies metadata --> ' + err.message)
-			}
-		}).toString();
+		let pipShowOutput = getPipShowOutput.call(this, depNames);
 		//debug
 		// pipShowOutput = "alternative pip show output goes here for debugging"
 		let allPipShowDeps = pipShowOutput.split( EOL +"---" + EOL);
diff --git a/test/it/end-to-end.js b/test/it/end-to-end.js
index fc980e4..0a2e54c 100644
--- a/test/it/end-to-end.js
+++ b/test/it/end-to-end.js
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ suite('Integration Tests', () => {
 			let parsedSummaryFromHtml = getParsedKeyFromHtml(html,"\"summary\"",10)
 			let parsedScannedFromHtml = reportParsedFromHtml.scanned
 			let parsedStatusFromHtmlSnyk = reportParsedFromHtml.providers["snyk"].status
-			let parsedStatusFromHtmlossIndex = reportParsedFromHtml.providers["oss-index"].status
 			expect( typeof html).equals("string")
 			expect(html).include("html").include("svg")
 			expect(parsedScannedFromHtml.total).greaterThan(0)
@@ -92,7 +91,6 @@ suite('Integration Tests', () => {
 			}
 			expect(parsedSummaryFromHtml.total).greaterThanOrEqual(0)
 			expect(parsedStatusFromHtmlSnyk.code).equals(200)
-			expect(parsedStatusFromHtmlossIndex.code).equals(401)
 			// parsedSummaryFromHtml.providerStatuses.forEach(provider => expect(provider.status).equals(200))
 		}).timeout(15000);