Step26.md

What You Will Learn during this Step:

• Securing our services with Basic Authentication using Spring Security
• Executing Requests using Basic Authentication with Postman
• default user name is user
• default security password is printed in console

Useful Snippets and References

First Snippet

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
        </dependency>

Second Snippet

Using default security password:

Third Snippet : Executing a GET to http://localhost:8080/surveys/Survey1/questions/

{
  "timestamp": 1483514297025,
  "status": 401,
  "error": "Unauthorized",
  "message": "Full authentication is required to access this resource",
  "path": "/surveys/Survey1/questions/"
}