diff --git a/litellm/llms/anthropic/files/handler.py b/litellm/llms/anthropic/files/handler.py
index 2c678310032..fbe50a15aa8 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/anthropic/files/handler.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/anthropic/files/handler.py
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ class AnthropicFilesHandler:
         api_key: str | None = None,
         timeout: float | httpx.Timeout = 600.0,
         max_retries: int | None = None,
+        litellm_params: dict | None = None,  # mutable-ok: handed straight to aget_auth_header
     ) -> HttpxBinaryResponseContent:
         """
         Async: Retrieve file content from Anthropic.
@@ -56,6 +57,10 @@ class AnthropicFilesHandler:
             api_key: Anthropic API key
             timeout: Request timeout
             max_retries: Max retry attempts (unused for now)
+            litellm_params: Optional deployment/credential params carrying the
+                workload-identity federation fields (rule id, org id, identity
+                token file, etc.). Without these a credential-backed federated
+                deployment has no static api_key and no way to mint one.
 
         Returns:
             HttpxBinaryResponseContent: Binary content wrapped in compatible response format
@@ -74,7 +79,7 @@ class AnthropicFilesHandler:
         # Get Anthropic API credentials
         api_base = self.anthropic_model_info.get_api_base(api_base)
         auth_header: Final = await self.anthropic_model_info.aget_auth_header(
-            api_key, api_base, allow_workload_identity=True
+            api_key, api_base, litellm_params=litellm_params, allow_workload_identity=True
         )
 
         if auth_header is None:
@@ -118,6 +123,7 @@ class AnthropicFilesHandler:
         api_key: str | None = None,
         timeout: float | httpx.Timeout = 600.0,
         max_retries: int | None = None,
+        litellm_params: dict | None = None,  # mutable-ok: handed straight to aget_auth_header
     ) -> HttpxBinaryResponseContent | Coroutine[object, object, HttpxBinaryResponseContent]:
         """
         Retrieve file content from Anthropic.
@@ -132,6 +138,8 @@ class AnthropicFilesHandler:
             api_key: Anthropic API key
             timeout: Request timeout
             max_retries: Max retry attempts (unused for now)
+            litellm_params: Optional deployment/credential params carrying the
+                workload-identity federation fields, forwarded to aget_auth_header.
 
         Returns:
             HttpxBinaryResponseContent or Coroutine: Binary content wrapped in compatible response format
@@ -142,6 +150,7 @@ class AnthropicFilesHandler:
                 api_base=api_base,
                 api_key=api_key,
                 max_retries=max_retries,
+                litellm_params=litellm_params,
             )
         else:
             return asyncio.run(
@@ -151,6 +160,7 @@ class AnthropicFilesHandler:
                     api_key=api_key,
                     timeout=timeout,
                     max_retries=max_retries,
+                    litellm_params=litellm_params,
                 )
             )
 
diff --git a/litellm/llms/anthropic/wif.py b/litellm/llms/anthropic/wif.py
index 2c28aec0413..679ed515a39 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/anthropic/wif.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/anthropic/wif.py
@@ -345,17 +345,29 @@ def resolve_anthropic_base(api_base: str | None) -> str:
 
 def _trusted_exchange_hosts() -> frozenset[str]:
     """Hostnames a federated exchange may reach: Anthropic's own, plus whatever the operator put in
-    the environment. Comma separated, case folded, entries given as a URL reduced to their host."""
+    the environment. Comma separated, case folded, each entry reduced to its bare hostname whether
+    it was written as a URL, a plain host, or a ``host:port`` (a bare ``host:port`` would otherwise
+    parse as scheme-only and match nothing, since the compared exchange base carries no port)."""
     configured: Final = os.getenv(_TRUSTED_EXCHANGE_HOSTS_ENV) or ""
     extra: Final = (entry.strip() for entry in configured.split(",") if entry.strip())
     return frozenset(
         chain(
             (_DEFAULT_TRUSTED_EXCHANGE_HOST,),
-            ((urlsplit(entry).hostname or entry.split("/")[0]).lower() for entry in extra),
+            (_normalize_trusted_host(entry) for entry in extra),
         )
     )
 
 
+def _normalize_trusted_host(entry: str) -> str:
+    """Reduce one allowlist entry to its lowercased hostname. A missing scheme is added as ``//`` so
+    ``host:port`` is parsed as an authority rather than as a scheme."""
+    to_parse: Final = entry if "://" in entry else f"//{entry}"
+    host: Final = urlsplit(to_parse).hostname
+    if host is not None:
+        return host.lower()
+    return entry.split("/", 1)[0].split(":", 1)[0].lower()
+
+
 def _raise_if_exchange_host_untrusted(exchange_base: str, model: str) -> None:
     """The federated exchange refuses any host the operator has not vouched for, whatever wrote the
     deployment's api_base. Exact hostname match, never a substring: ``api.anthropic.com.evil.test``