I'm kinda newbie into the spring world, and I'm trying to run a POC for a SAML SSO assertion-type,
I've implemented locally this project https://github.com/vdenotaris/spring-boot-security-saml-sample
And ran it against SSOCircle, but eventually, I'm gonna need to use my own IDP what I'm trying to do right now, doesn't involve actually validating the user, I want the demo project from the GitHub to point to a different spring project.
That part is actually done, I've added to my IDP-demo page an XML-metadata which is consumed by the Service provider, then in my IDP-demo, I type any email address and it should take me back to the Service Provider (the vdenotaris sample project) with a valid assertion.
How can I dynamically generate this XML assertion? I've read the spring docs and the SAML docs with no luck, If anyone can point me into the right place or even the proper documentation I'll be thankful.
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I would like to set up a standalone swagger-ui application, to view the different APIs from different servers in one central place.
In a second step I would like to customise swagger-ui to show multiple APIs at once.
I don't want to add swagger-ui to all the servers that provide swagger api-docs though.
To do so I would like to use spring boot and thought this should be an easy task. However, I have trouble getting it to work.
Here is what I did:
Generated a Spring Boot application using https://start.spring.io
included spring-boot-starter-web
added io.springfox:springfox-swagger-ui:2.3.1 dependency
When opening http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui.html I see a 404 error and UI seems broken:
Is there any reason for using Spring-boot instead of a simple web server for this?
See for example here with Nginx, including some basic authentication (pretty old link but still looking alright), or in the ReadMe of the swagger-ui github reposiory directly for easily serving with Connect/gulp-serve inside Docker (the setup can also be reproduced directly without Docker if wanted).
Also I have no idea why you're getting resources requested by the page on a different port... Just ask in case you still need help now on this topic.
I am developing a jsp dynamic web project on eclipse.
I want to create an website with login functionality. I intend to store users' accounts and passwords in MySQL database. Of course, different users have different roles and rights to access different web pages. What is the best approach to implement it?
So far, I know these approaches:
1) Users enter accounts/passwords in login.jsp. LoginServlet then connects to MySQL database to check if it is correct. AuthenticationFilters will make sure only users with rights can access certain pages.
2) Use Role Based Authentication by declaring user roles in web.xml. I find this approach is not flexible, because I need to declare roles in advance.
3) Use HttpServletRequest's login/logout methods. I have not studied it.
Is my understanding correct? Could someone gives me some suggestions? Some clues would be very helpful!
Besides, I know that using POST alone to send passwords is not safe enough. Many websites suggest to use HTTPS connections. So if using HTTPS connections, does it affect the approach I choose to implement the login function?
Thanks!
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Now, I know I need to use Spring. But Spring seems difficult for me... In Spring website I cant find out the link to download jar files. The user guide says I need to use Gradle or Maven, which I haven't used before, and have no idea why I need them. Besides, there are many Spring projects. Which one should I choose? Spring framework?
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Have you looked into using Spring Security? It's built for just that. You don't need to be familiar with Spring but it may help.
Here are a couple of tutorials that use database authentication:
1: Spring Security Authentication and Authorization Example with Database Credentials
2: Spring Security Login Example with Database
Edit:
You don't have to Maven or Gradle. You can simply add the jars to your build path and they will work. The only projects you need to implement for the login to work is the Spring Framework and Spring Security.
To use Spring Security without Maven or Gradle:
Download the Spring Framework jars, unzip them, and add them to your project and build path. It's probably a good idea to find a hello world tutorial using Spring to get you started. A quick Google search should turn up many results.
After you have Spring implemented in your project, download the Spring Security jars, unzip those, and add them to your build path. The links to the tutorials that I previously posted will get you started. They may take a little while to go through and you may not understand exactly what is happening behind the scenes, but once you get it set up is works outstanding. I'm also not sure if you are using xml configuration or Java config but I believe those tutorials are for xml.
Spring Security was built so that it could be added to any project and have you up and running with basic configuration in about 15 minutes. After you get the basic login going (it will use the generic login form), you can search for how to implement your own custom login form, add permissions or restrictions to users and url patters, adding custom filters, etc. I encourage you to spend some time learning it as it is highly flexible and customizable.
I have been searching for an example Spring Webservice which is being protected using oauth 2.0..
Looking around I found https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security-oauth/tree/master/samples/oauth2 but there some files seems to be missing from the project.
Two things that I am looking for is :
When user authenticates, user name and password goes to /login.do , now I can not understand how this Servlet is being configured, if its not controller. web.xml is missing.
When I try to see how beans configured then applicationContext.xml is also missing. I am not able to find those files in order to see how things are configured.
Help Required :
Should I use annotation in order to configure my web service or xml configuration. I am willing to use the latest version, and leverage advanced configurations, for better security.
I have another Single page application ( HTML5 ) , which accesses data from this spring web service, which is being hosted on Google App Engine. My ultimate objective is to create a chrome plugin of (html5) pages and use my service from there..
Please suggest a better path so that I can achieve my objectives.
Best regards,
Shashank Pratap
Apologize for late reply.
1) Regarding Oauth2.0 implementation : Since GAE does not support Servlet 3.0 therefore, developer is restricted to servlet 2.5. Therefore I found that we are restricted to 1.0.5.RELEASE. I was able to configure it successfully.
Best Practice on GAE : Rather than following this approach, I would suggest others to use Google Endpoints. As it supports oauth2.0 as well as we can develop REST API relatively quickly.
Scale ability and Response time : Since I was using Spring dependency injection along with spring security, application responded slower than the combination of Google Endpoints and Google Juice, as juice does injection just in time, where as spring prepares everything as soon as new instance starts, which created problem for me.
2) Chrome Plugin is completely different story. :-)
Please correct if I am wrong.
Thanks,
Shashank Pratap
I have a number of micro-services built with Spring Boot, so for a bit of fun, I thought I'd have a go at adding HATEOAS to them to help set up cross-resource linking. It seems to work quite nicely within a particular project, but I was wondering whether there's a good way to link across APIs. As an example, imagine I have 3 services:
A user details service:
Code:
/users/{userid}
A user calendar service:
Code:
/users/{userid}/appointments
/users/{userid}/appointments/{appointmentid}
A user messaging service:
Code:
/users/{userid}/messages
/users/{userid}/messages/{messageid}
To make this browsable via the API, it would be good to have links from a user resource to its appointments and messages. Similarly, it would be nice to have links back from those resources. This is all very achievable when I have a single API with everything on the classpath, where I can write code such as:
Code:
user.add(linkTo(methodOn(CalendarController.class).appointments(user.getKey())).withRel("appointments"))
However I'm not able to do this if CalendarController is not on the classpath of the service I'm currently hitting.
Is there a good/recommended method for creating links to controllers which are not in the current project?
Referenced from spring forums
Maybe this is a bit more involved than you were hoping, but as mentioned here, this is exactly what Eureka is for. It also has really nice integration with the new Spring Cloud project.
I wanted to know whether it is possible to have custom handler execution just before spring authentication manager. I wanted to validate licenses for the user before he access system. Initially i wrote custom filter and executed it before calling to authentication manager, but in this case he wont be able to access some resources since he is not authenticated, but later i moved my code to sucessHandler of spring which worked fine, except it has some security issues like if open in multiple tabs it fails.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brijesh
I think what you are looking for is to add a Spring AuthenticationProvider. In short, an AuthenticationManager has a list of AuthenticationProviders, each of which is queried in order. The question and answer to Multiple Authentication Providers in Spring Security has a good explanation of this. The Spring documentation also explains how the various components fit together.