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* Bodies are JSON (`application/json`, the default), text (`text/plain`, stored as a
string), or a value of a type of its own (Types); answers are JSON, or as `Accept`
asks. Numbers in JSON are stored as integers where they fit, as floats otherwise.
-* Every request needs a user from the node's `--htpasswd` (basic authentication), or
+* Every request needs a user from the node's `--htpasswd` (basic authentication),
named by a reverse proxy in front that authenticated it (`--user-header`;
- [`operations.md`](operations.md), Behind a reverse proxy). What each may do, the swarm's user
+ [`operations.md`](operations.md), Behind a reverse proxy), or a token from logging in on any node
+ of the swarm (`Authorization: Bearer`, [`access.md`](access.md), Tokens). What each may do, the swarm's user
registry says, by path ([`access.md`](access.md)): `403` where it doesn't let the user, and
of a part it may only partly read, a read shows the keys on the way to what it may.
In a swarm without a registry, users are all alike: each can read and write