JWT

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In this tutorial, you will be introduced to the process of adding JSON Web Token (JWT) support to your Java application. You will also learn how to add and validate custom JWT Claims using the io.jsonwebtoken library. The JWT tokens generated in this process will be signed with a SecretKeySpec, making them secure and tamper-proof.…

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by 0 comments on "@AuthenticationPrincipal – Getting the Jwt Claims"

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use @AuthenticationPrincipal annotation to get the Jwt object containing the details of a provided in HTTP Request access token. When we send a request containing an access token in the Authorization header, behind the scenes,  Spring Framework will do a lot of work and if all is good,…

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by 0 comments on "Pass Authorization Header to Downstream Microservice"

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make Zuul API Gateway pass an Authorization header to a downstream Microservice. To learn how to make Spring Boot Microservice read HTTP Request headers, please read this tutorial: Read HTTP Request Header in Spring MVC. Configure Zuul API Gateway to Forward an Authorization Header By default, Zuul…

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by 3 comments on "User Authentication – Spring Boot, Spring Security, JWT"

In this Spring Boot tutorial, you will learn how to implement User Authentication(User Login) functionality for your RESTful Web Service application. There is also a step-by-step video demonstration on how to do User Authentication available here. The user authentication functionality we are going to implement in this tutorial will work the following way: A user…

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