title: Why does JWT need to be sent as a Bearer Token header?
body: <p>I am adding JWT Auth for a completely new frontend to a legacy Rails backend.</p>
  
  <p>Upon HTTP request, it seems most sources suggest I send the token back to the server via Bearer Header.</p>
  
  <p>Why?  What is the additional value of sending via header (bearer or basic).  What can't I simply pass the JWT back to the server via .json and authenticate the token from there.</p>
  
  <p>What benefit does an Authorization header give me, and moreso, what does a Bearer Authorization header give me?</p>
  
  <p>I can of course simply follow everyone's example, but want to understand why.  The bearer docs are verbose and hard to understand what I'm gaining over simple sending the JWT as part of the data in the request.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>