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Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications

You're reading from   Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications Learn effective ways to secure your applications with Spring and Spring WebFlux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788995979
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Overview of Spring 5 and Spring Security 5 FREE CHAPTER 2. Deep Diving into Spring Security 3. Authentication Using SAML, LDAP, and OAuth/OIDC 4. Authentication Using CAS and JAAS 5. Integrating with Spring WebFlux 6. REST API Security 7. Spring Security Add-Ons 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

CORS Support


Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS) is a mechanism that uses additional HTTP headers to tell a browser to let a web application running at one origin (domain) have permission to access selected resources from a server at a different origin. A web application makes a cross-origin HTTP request when it requests a resource that has a different origin (domain, protocol, and port) than its own origin.

We won't be creating full-fledged projects in this section to explain the working of CORS. We will use code snippets and will explain each bit of code so that the section is concise.

Change your Spring Security configuration, as shown in the following code snippet:

@EnableWebSecurity
@Configuration
public class SpringSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

 @Override
 protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
    http.cors();
 }
 @Bean
 CorsConfigurationSource corsConfigurationSource() {
    UrlBasedCorsConfigurationSource...
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