* So, to authenticate with our API, it sends a header `Authorization` with a value of `Bearer ` plus the token.
    * If the token contains `foobar`, the content of the `Authorization` header would be: `Bearer foobar`.

## **FastAPI**'s `OAuth2PasswordBearer` { #fastapis-oauth2passwordbearer }

**FastAPI** provides several tools, at different levels of abstraction, to implement these security features.

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