```Python hl_lines="6"
{!../../../docs_src/behind_a_proxy/tutorial001.py!}
```

And the proxy would be **"stripping"** the **path prefix** on the fly before transmitting the request to the app server (probably Uvicorn via FastAPI CLI), keeping your application convinced that it is being served at `/app`, so that you don't have to update all your code to include the prefix `/api/v1`.

Up to here, everything would work as normally.

A round of applause to them. 👏 🙇

## FastAPI Experts

These are the users that have been [helping others the most with questions in GitHub](help-fastapi.md#help-others-with-questions-in-github){.internal-link target=_blank}. 🙇

They have proven to be **FastAPI Experts** by helping many others. ✨

!!! tip
    You could become an official FastAPI Expert too!

* Improved **correctness** in corner cases.
* **Safer** types.
* Better **performance** and **less energy** consumption.
* Better **extensibility**.
* etc.

...all this while keeping the **same Python API**. In most of the cases, for simple models, you can simply upgrade the Pydantic version and get all the benefits. 🚀

href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example" class="external-link" target="_blank">minimal, reproducible, example</a>, that you can **copy-paste** and run locally to see the same error or behavior they are seeing, or to understand their use case better.

* If you are feeling too generous, you can try to **create an example** like that yourself, just based on the description of the problem. Just keep in mind that this might take a lot of time and it might be better to ask them to clarify...

Uma salva de palmas para eles. 👏 🙇

## Usuários mais ativos do ultimo mês

Estes são os usuários que estão [helping others the most with issues (questions) in GitHub](help-fastapi.md#responda-perguntas-no-github){.internal-link target=_blank} durante o ultimo mês. ☕

{% if people %}
<div class="user-list user-list-center">

Also, HTTP headers are case-insensitive, so, you can declare them with standard Python style (also known as "snake_case").

So, you can use `user_agent` as you normally would in Python code, instead of needing to capitalize the first letters as `User_Agent` or something similar.

If for some reason you need to disable automatic conversion of underscores to hyphens, set the parameter `convert_underscores` of `Header` to `False`:

    ```

...and **FastAPI** will know what to do.

!!! tip
    If that seems more confusing than helpful, disregard it, you don't *need* it.

```

</details>

## What is a Container

Containers (mainly Linux containers) are a very **lightweight** way to package applications including all their dependencies and necessary files while keeping them isolated from other containers (other applications or components) in the same system.

You can create and use environment variables in the shell, without needing Python:

=== "Linux, macOS, Windows Bash"

    <div class="termy">

    ```console
    // You could create an env var MY_NAME with
    $ export MY_NAME="Wade Wilson"