JWT

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to generate a custom JSON Web Token(JWT) and how to add and validate custom JWT Claims using the io.jsonwebtoken library. The JWT token generated in this tutorial will be signed with a SecretKey, making it secure and tamper-proof. Also, this tutorial assumes you have prior knowledge of creating…

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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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