Spring Security HTTP basic authentication

In this section, you will learn about the HTTP basic authentication in Spring Security.

You can configure HTTP basic authentication in spring-security.xml as follows :

<!--Spring Security HTTP basic authentication configuration-->
<http>
	<intercept-url pattern="/index*" access="ROLE_USER" />
	<http-basic />
</http>

This configuration will display a login dialog box for user authentication as follows :

http://localhost:9090/SpringSecurityHTTPBasicAuthentication/index 

When you try to access the above URL, the following page will appear :

When you provide correct login credential (User Name : admin, Password : roseindia), the following page will appear :

CODE

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>SpringSecurityHTTPBasicAuthentication</display-name>
<!-- Spring MVC -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
/WEB-INF/Dispatcher-servlet.xml,
/WEB-INF/spring-security.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>

<!-- Spring Security -->
<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

</web-app>

Dispatcher-servlet.xml

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

<context:component-scan base-package="net.roseindia" />

<bean
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix">
<value>/WEB-INF/views/</value>
</property>
<property name="suffix">
<value>.jsp</value>
</property>
</bean>

<bean id="messageSource"
class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource">
<property name="basenames">
<list>
<value>LoginMsg</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>

</beans>

spring-security.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.0.3.xsd">

<!--Spring Security HTTP basic authentication configuration-->
<http>
<intercept-url pattern="/index*" access="ROLE_USER" />
<http-basic />
</http>

<authentication-manager>
<authentication-provider>
<user-service>
<user name="admin" password="roseindia" authorities="ROLE_USER" />
</user-service>
</authentication-provider>
</authentication-manager>

</beans:beans>

ProjectController.java

package net.roseindia;

import java.security.Principal;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.ModelMap;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;

@Controller
public class ProjectController {
@RequestMapping(value = "/index", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String printMessage(ModelMap model, Principal principal) {

String username = principal.getName();
model.addAttribute("user", username);
model.addAttribute("msg", "Spring Security Custom Login Form");
return "welcome";

}

@RequestMapping(value = "/login", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String login(ModelMap model) {

return "login";

}

@RequestMapping(value = "/failLogin", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String failedLogin(ModelMap model) {

model.addAttribute("error", "true");
return "login";

}

@RequestMapping(value = "/logoff", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String logoff(ModelMap model) {

return "login";
}
}

LoginMsg.properties

AbstractUserDetailsAuthenticationProvider.badCredentials=Wrong username\ /\ password

welcome.jsp

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
<html>
<body>
<h3>${msg}</h3> 
<h3>Username : ${user}</h3>
</body>
</html>

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