API Gateway with SSO Authentication using Spring WEB MVC - spring-boot

Have created an API Gateway microservice (Sprint Boot project), using the Spring Cloud Starter Gateway.
Also the API Gateway would do the SSO Authentication, and on successful authentication, the IDP would redirect the SAML assertion to the API gateway HTTPS endpoint.
Added the spring-cloud-starter-gateway dependency and excluded all the transitive dependencies.
i have added the spring-boot-starter-web dependency so that the IDP would be able to redirect to the API gateway HTTPS endpoint.
I tested the SSO Authentication and it worked fine, but then when i wanted to test the gateway routing, it was not working.
So had to comment out the excluded spring-cloud-gateway-server dependency for routing.
But it gave error that Spring Web MVC found on Classpath is incompatible with Spring Cloud Gateway.
Either make application reactive or remove web dependency.
So made the application reactive by adding property in application.properties file to make it reactive.
But now, while doing SSO authentication, i get the following error in the Browser,
type=Unsupported Media Type, status=415
Is there a way in which we could do WEB SSO Authentication in the API Gateway ??

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