In the following tutorial, I have shown you how to develop RESTful web services using Spring Boot Spring Data Rest web services for Beginners - Step By Step Guide This is a simple and easy written tutorial for beginners who are interested to explore the trending and widely used J2EE framework. In this tutorial, we will learn how to secure the Restful web services using the HTTP Basic Authentication header. According to rfc7617, basic authentication is the method for HTTP user agent to provide the following two pieces of information in a request User Name Password In this method, the HTTP request contains the header in the following format Authorization: Basic <credentials> where <credentials> is base64(username:password) Step 1 Add the following dependency to the maven <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId> <...
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