Swift authenticating a user

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To authenticate a user, make a request containing an X-Auth-User and a X-Auth-Key in the header.

Syntax 

GET /auth HTTP/1.1
Host: swift.example.com
X-Auth-User: johndoe
X-Auth-Key: R7UUOLFDI2ZI9PRCQ53K

Example Response 

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:05:33 GMT
Server: swift
X-Storage-Url: https://swift.example.com
X-Storage-Token: UOlCCC8TahFKlWuv9DB09TWHF0nDjpPElha0kAa
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Note: You can retrieve data about Ceph’s Swift-compatible service by executing GET requests using the X-Storage-Url value during authentication.