Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

Implementing authentication in the backend

As you can see in the commit record in Figure 10.15, the authentication service in the frontend sends a HTTP POST request to /api/authentications. This is different from the standard way of using Spring Security for authentication. As mentioned earlier, by default, Spring Security will process the login request at the /login path using HTTP POST method and we expect the content type of the request to be application/x-www-form-urlencoded. After successful authentication, by default, Spring Security will redirect the user to a target page. Usually, it is the home page. The redirection will be done using the sendRedirect() method of an instance of HttpServletResponse. When the authentication fails, ...