Securing REST APIs with HTTP BASIC authentication
Security is no longer an afterthought, it's a must in any application these days.
In the modern era, security is an essential feature in any application, your REST services are no exception to it. In this short tutorial, we’ll discuss how to secure your REST APIs with BASIC authentication. We’ll use Spring Security to implement the security of the API
Application Endpoints
We’ll use a fictitious application that lets us manage our favorite web URLs. Let us call this application Pocket. It has the following endpoints:
GET /pockets: Returns all available pockets
GET /pockets/{id}: Returns the available pocket for the supplied id. Return an error for invalid ids
POST /pockets: Create a new pocket
PUT /pockets: Update an existing pocket
DELETE /pockets/{id}: Delete a pocket by the supplied id
Application Development
Let us now generate a Spring Boot project with the web, lombok, data-jpa, and H2 dependencies.
Let us now the Pocket model object:
