Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications

Running the application and testing

Run the project by executing the following command:

mvn jetty:run

Wait for the console to print [INFO] Started Jetty Server.

Open a browser (I use Firefox in private mode for testing) and navigate to http://localhost:8080, and you will be shown the custom login page that you created, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 1: The custom login page

Enter user/user@password as the username and password. Click on Remember me and click the Login button, and you will be navigated to the user home page, as shown here:

Figure 2: User home page

Query your MySQL database for the persistent_logins table, and ...