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looking to build a production Python API, I would highly recommend **FastAPI**. It is **beautifully designed**, **simple to use** and **highly scalable**, it has become a **key component** in our API first development strategy and is driving many automations and services such as our Virtual TAC Engineer._"

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This could be useful if for example you live in a country that restricts some URLs.

### Disable the automatic docs

The first step is to disable the automatic docs, as by default, those use the default CDN.

To disable them, set their URLs to `None` when creating your `FastAPI` app:

```Python hl_lines="8"

# OpenAPI `docs`

Utilities to handle OpenAPI automatic UI documentation, including Swagger UI (by default at `/docs`) and ReDoc (by default at `/redoc`).

::: fastapi.openapi.docs.get_swagger_ui_html

::: fastapi.openapi.docs.get_redoc_html

::: fastapi.openapi.docs.get_swagger_ui_oauth2_redirect_html

!!! info
    To declare headers, you need to use `Header`, because otherwise the parameters would be interpreted as query parameters.

## Automatic conversion

`Header` has a little extra functionality on top of what `Path`, `Query` and `Cookie` provide.

Most of the standard headers are separated by a "hyphen" character, also known as the "minus symbol" (`-`).

looking to build a production Python API, I would highly recommend **FastAPI**. It is **beautifully designed**, **simple to use** and **highly scalable**, it has become a **key component** in our API first development strategy and is driving many automations and services such as our Virtual TAC Engineer._"

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But you can still document it as described in [Additional Responses in OpenAPI](additional-responses.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

And you will still have the same features as seen up to now:

* Great editor support.
* Data conversion from incoming requests.
* Data conversion for response data.
* Data validation.
* Automatic annotation and documentation.

## Other data types

Here are some of the additional data types you can use:

* `UUID`:
    * A standard "Universally Unique Identifier", common as an ID in many databases and systems.

```

!!! warning
    A `Response` returned directly by your *path operation function* won't be documented in OpenAPI (for example, the `Content-Type` won't be documented) and won't be visible in the automatic interactive docs.

!!! info
    Of course, the actual `Content-Type` header, status code, etc, will come from the `Response` object you returned.

### Document in OpenAPI and override `Response`

                """
                The URL where the OpenAPI schema will be served from.

                If you set it to `None`, no OpenAPI schema will be served publicly, and
                the default automatic endpoints `/docs` and `/redoc` will also be
                disabled.

                Read more in the
                [FastAPI docs for Metadata and Docs URLs](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/metadata/#openapi-url).