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Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring

By : Ludovic Dewailly
Book Image

Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring

By: Ludovic Dewailly

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Handling security


In Chapter 7, Dealing with Security, we learned to apply security to RESTful endpoints. For instance, we discussed how to set up the HTTP Basic authentication for the booking service. We can expand on the previous section's example and add security handling. The next two sections illustrate how to handle both the Basic and Digest authentications.

The Basic authentication

This authentication scheme requires the Authorization header to contain the username/password pair encoded in Base64. This is easily achieved by modifying the client as follows:

public RemoteBookingServiceClient(String serviceUrl, String username, String password) {

  template = new RestTemplate();
  String credentials = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString((username + ":" + password).getBytes());
  template.getInterceptors().add((request, body, execution) -> {
    request.getHeaders().add("Authorization", "Basic " + credentials);
    return execution.execute(request, body);
  });
}

This new constructor takes...