Software Architecture with Spring 5.0

Basic authentication

Basic authentication, or basic access authentication, is a mechanism used to restrict or provide access to specific resources in the server. In a web application, the resources are often web pages, but this mechanism can be used to secure RESTful web services, as well. However, this approach is not common; a different mechanism, based on tokens, is preferred.

When a website is secured using basic authentication, the users need to provide their credentials before requesting the website's pages. The user credentials are merely a simple combination of a username and password that is encoded using a Base64 algorithm, to calculate the value that should be in the Authentication header. This will be used by the server later, ...