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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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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

Remember-me authentication

We will be reusing and enhancing the example that we built in Chapter 2Deep Diving into Spring Security (jetty-db-basic-authentication), to explain how Spring Security can be used to achieve remember me, or persistent login, functionality. In the example that we are going to reuse, we have used basic authentication, in which user credentials are stored in a MySQL database.

Remember me functionality is achieved in Spring Security by sending cookies to the browser when the user chooses to remember his/her credentials on the client side. The cookie can be configured to be stored in the browser for a stipulated time. If the cookie exists and is valid, the next time the user accesses the application, they are taken straight to the user's home page and avoid explicit authentication with a username/password combination.

Remember me functionality...

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