October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
590 pages
15h 5m
English
Before we move forward and talk about Spring Security in depth, let's introduce the core concepts in Spring Security. Understanding these concepts will help us have a better understanding of how it works.
In Spring Security, the core components are Authentication, GrantedAuthority, SecurityContext, and SecurityContextHolder.
An Authentication object represents the token for an authentication request or for an authenticated principal, once the request has been processed by AuthenticationManager. An authentication request is usually a login request the frontend sends to the server. In Spring Security, this request's end point is the login processing URL. By default, it is at the /login path using the HTTP POST ...
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