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	When receiving a 401 response from the service, clients should obtain new MAC Auth credentials and an updated endpoint URL via the Authentication API.		When receiving a 401 response from the service, clients should obtain new MAC Auth credentials and an updated endpoint URL via the Authentication API.

			Why request-signing instead of a simpler bearer-token approach? See [https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/services-dev/2011-December/000803.html this thread on the mailing list] for the background discussion.