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diff --git a/docs/api.md b/docs/api.md index 078594b..3fb99be 100644 --- a/docs/api.md +++ b/docs/api.md @@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ curl -u alice:secret -X POST 'localhost:3000/store/stats/visits?increment=1' # * 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), +* Every request needs a user from the node's `--htpasswd` (basic authentication: send + the password with the request, as `curl -u` does; the node asks for one with a + `401`'s `WWW-Authenticate` only of what isn't a browser, by its `Sec-Fetch-*` + headers or a `Mozilla/…` user agent, so a browser never prompts), named by a reverse proxy in front that authenticated it (`--user-header`; [`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 |