I have spring boot app with thymeleaf. I am using spring security formLogin method for security and now I need to add JWT for only some APIs. by doing this JWT is working fine as just I need but the formlogin has stopped and calling “/signInProcess” now give 404: NOTE: if I change the order and ma…
Tag: authentication
Register form only works if user is already logged in
I created a Spring Boot web application, and it is connected to a local MySQL database. I have a template called “login.html” which has a login form, as well as a register form in it. This is the template “login.html”: In the MySQL database, I have many users with an email address and …
Add database authentication to Spring Data Rest application
I’m creating an application using Spring Data REST with Thymeleaf. Initially I created my models, controllers, dao and services. All worked fine. I’m now trying to add security to my application. Right now I’m just focused on the login/logout. I’ve been able to create an in memory auth…
Spring authentication using ActiveDirectoryLdapAuthenticationProvider and embedded ldif
one of my clients requirement was to authenticate users against his corporate ActiveDirectory (LDAP). So I used standard ActiveDirectoryLdapAuthenticationProvider and it works like a charm. Problem is that clients AC is hidden behind firewall. It works after deployment, but I cannot reach AC during local deve…
How to handle authentication popup in Chrome with Selenium WebDriver using Java
I am trying to handle an authentication pop-up in one of my new Webdriver scripts. I have a working solution for IE, but I am struggling with Chrome. IE was as simple as following the advice on [this page]:How to handle authentication popup with Selenium WebDriver using Java. That thread doesn’t show a …
Unable to tunnel through proxy. Proxy returns “HTTP/1.1 407” via https
I am faced with a curious behaviour of java6/8. I try to tunnel through a proxy which needs basic user authentication. Doing this by the standard java Authenticator. If I try to access a https url as the first url, an exception is thrown: java.io.IOException: Unable to tunnel through proxy. Proxy returns R…
Limit login attempt in Java
I am trying to limit the maximum login attempts to 3. However, my code below uses all the attempts before the user can get a chance to press the login button again. How would I fix this? Answer Whenever, the executeLogin() will be invoked, the previous value of totalAttempts will be erased and it will be agai…
Logging in to a website with Jsoup which redirects, and scraping a page that isn’t the redirect
This is the website I’m trying to scrape from. I’m able to login to the website fairly easily. However, I’m unable to retrieve and reuse the cookies or session ID to scrape a page other than the one the login page redirects to. I receive a 403 everytime. Here is an example of what I’ve…
Unable to import certificate to cacerts
My requirement is to import a certificate for maven repositories into the global keystore. The certificate file is named maven-cacert.cer . I am using following command from C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_20bin from cmd as maven-cacert.cer file is in C directory after pressing enter it asked to put password and …
How to implement a JDBC database into a Gui program to authenticate a user and password for logging into the program
I’m currently making a gui program and I’m clueless to how I am meant to set up my program so when the user inputs a username and password, and then clicks the login button it checks the database for the username and password, and if the username and password is in the database, they accepted, if …