```

It is not encrypted, so, anyone could recover the information from the contents.

But it's signed. So, when you receive a token that you emitted, you can verify that you actually emitted it.

That way, you can create a token with an expiration of, let's say, 1 week. And then when the user comes back the next day with the token, you know that user is still logged in to your system.

For example, extending the previous model, you could decide that you want to have another key `importance` in the same body, besides the `item` and `user`.

If you declare it as is, because it is a singular value, **FastAPI** will assume that it is a query parameter.

But you can instruct **FastAPI** to treat it as another body key using `Body`:

But it's there for you if you need it. 🤓

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When you try to open the URL for the first time (or click the "Execute" button in the docs) the browser will ask you for your username and password:

<img src="/img/tutorial/security/image12.png">

## Check the username { #check-the-username }

Here's a more complete example.

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