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Published on 05 February 15

Spring Security’s CSRF protection for REST services: the client side and the server side

By codesandnotes_ , In Code, Java, Javascript, Spring

Spring Security offers CSRF (cross-site request forgery) protection by default for Java web applications. In this post I will examine how you can make that CSRF protection work for a web client interacting with REST-based CSRF-protected services. Both the web client’s code and the server application’s configuration will be described.

Published on 18 December 14

Validating Spring REST controllers’ beans using the Bean Validation API… and writing the tests for it!

By codesandnotes_ , In Code, Java, Spring

So you want to validate the data sent to your application’s REST services? Nowadays you can quite easily do that using Spring and the Bean Validation API. And to help you test that validation process, how about bringing in Spring Boot to programmatically start your application and run your tests against it?

Published on 31 October 14

RESTful authentication using Spring Security on Spring Boot, and jQuery as a web client

By codesandnotes_ , In Code, Java, Spring

Today’s web applications expect some RESTful services to provide them with the data they need. But what about securing those accesses? In this post, I provide a full example of form-based RESTful authentication against a Spring Boot + Spring Security back-end.

Published on 21 September 14

Beginning Spring Security authentication on Spring Boot

By codesandnotes_ , In Code, Java, Spring

Back to some technical stuff after my post of last week. This time we’ll have a look on how to configure your Spring Security when working on top of a Spring Boot project.

Category: Spring

Spring Security’s CSRF protection for REST services: the client side and the server side

Validating Spring REST controllers’ beans using the Bean Validation API… and writing the tests for it!

RESTful authentication using Spring Security on Spring Boot, and jQuery as a web client

Beginning Spring Security authentication on Spring Boot