Tag: jQuery

Published on 05 February 2015

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 31 October 2014

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.