What is the Best way to secure REST Services (develop by Spring Framework) for use in Android app? Please consider the limitation of httpclient in android. using http authentication header is enough?
My need is to be able to control which application is calling my web service and is this application authorized to call it.
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I need to create a SpringBoot RESTful API to be consumed either by a web project or a mobile app.
My question is how to secure it without the typically basic authorization that returns you a "jsessionid" to the web browser and mantains the session with it. It's not a problem for the web project, because it could store that jsessionid. But how about to secure the mobile app request to the API?
Sorry for my english. Thanks.
One of the architectural constraints of REST is that it must be stateless.
Your REST API must not have sessions that authenticate the client. Instead, the client should pass some sort of token, commonly placed in the Authentication HTTP Header.
JWT and OAuth 2.0 are both very popular ways of doing this, and you can absolutely use HTTP Basic Authentication with OAuth 2.0 if you wish.
Here's an article called Stateless Authenticaiton with Spring Security and JWT. Hopefully that will help!
You can use basic authentication. It work sending username and password on each request but don't need save the sessionid in the client.
Here are a sample application with basic authentication:
http://www.baeldung.com/spring-security-basic-authentication
If you don't save anything in the server session you don't need save the jsessionid in the client.
I am developing a RESTful web service as a back-end layer for mobile application. This service receives combination of device id (as user id) an a pin (as password), and passes to another back-end service, that validates and returns the status of successful login along the user information, in case, the user is authorized. My service is not validating the user. And mobile sends sub sequent requests to my RESTful service.
So, please suggest, how can I make all this system(especially the RESTful) secured, using Spring security.
I am using a Tomcat server, Spring and Jersey
I recently implemented a method to secure my existing RESTful APIs in Spring. I have used a token based authentication model using OAuth2. In my project, I wanted to secure my API's in a way that every request is individually authenticated and authorised based on the token present in the header. If this is something you are looking for, then I would highly recommend you to take a look at the documentation here. If there is anything you are stuck at while implementing it. Please do let me know.
Also, you can find multiple projects for Spring and OAuth here
How do i call an api from an app secured by spring security.
I have a api provider completely secured with spring security.
Now i want to allow other clients/service to consume my rest from their apps. eg using jquery, php, etc. But my app is secured.
Your assistance will be highly appreciated.
A REST API is a set of URLs. You access these URLs secured by Spring in the same way you'd access any secured Web app.
That is, use a Web client, establish a session by using the authentication method configured, and send the HTTP method request you want.
This is my first question on StackOverflow and I hope someone can help me. :-)
I am planning to build a web-application (backend) with spring roo. For the backend I will use Spring and Hibernate/JPA. In the future I will implement a web client (JSF/Primefaces), a mobile client (Android) and a Windows App.
With spring roo it is easy to create a layered architecture with domain classes, repositories and services. This part is fun.
But now I am thinking about remoting and how to connect all the clients (web, mobile, windows) with my backend.
1.) What do you prefer for the remoting between client and backend? SOAP-Web Services or a REST-API (e.g. with JSON).
2.) If REST-API: How should the API look like for authentication/login functionality? REST is resource-oriented but how do you implement authentication with REST API?
At the moment I think a REST-API is a good idea. Because I am using spring it is easy to create a Spring MVC controller with REST support. But is this the correct way to implement a REST API for all the three devices? The web client e.g. should be implemented with JSF and Primefaces and I don´t use spring MVC for the web layer.
3.)Can I nevertheless use Spring MVC controllers to build the REST API (together with JSF in the web layer)? Or is there a better way?
1.) What do you prefer for the remoting between client and backend? SOAP-Web Services or a REST-API (e.g. with JSON).
I don't have too much experience with SOAP-WS, but I have a ton of experience with REST-APIs using JSON. There are many implementations for mobile, web and server side clients that are fairly simple to implement.
2.) If REST-API: How should the API look like for authentication/login functionality? REST is resource oriented but how to implement authentication with REST API?
If you are already using spring, I recommend securing your API with Spring Security. You can use spring security even if you don't end up going with Spring MVC for your API implementation. There are many ways to secure a rest API with spring security, but I the simplest is to send the basic auth header with every request to a secure URI
3.)Can I nevertheless use Spring MVC controllers to build the REST API (together with JSF in the web layer)? Or is there a better way?
Spring MVC Controllers will work fine, but I would recommend going with RestEasy or Jersey. I find them to be more flexable.
I agree with #mad_fox. Additionally, i want to add another option regarding your question#2. If you dont want to use Spring security, you can write your own token based authentication mechanism using spring and basic java interceptors.
You can store the token in your browser local storage.
Developed Rest API using Java/Spring MVC
Can we provide authentication for RestAPI? If yes, How?
Now I am struggling with authentication for RestApi. Can anyone send some examples regarding the same.
Accessing rest API through AJAX request.
Since you are already using Spring, you can use Spring security to provide security related functionality. This can give you one stop solution for your security needs. Common security mechanisms for Rest API's (basic, digest) and features are supported out of box and it's very easy to add your custom security too. For a start tutorial you can have a look here