Getting Started with Dropwizard: Authentication, Configuration and HTTPS
Here is a link to my Getting Started with Dropwizard course on Udemy. Only $10! In the previous installment of this series we discussed how to create a Dropwizard project using Maven archetype as well as how to create a simple RESTful API and access it. API security is an important topic and today we'll discuss how to use authentication and HTTPS with Dropwizard. Also, the problem of configuring Dropwizard applications will be touched. All the code for the examples below can be found here . Authentication Basic Authentication is a simplest way to secure access to a resource. It boils down to transmitting a base64-encoded column-separated pair of user-ID and password using Authorize HTTP header. If a non-authenticated client tries to access a protected resource, the server prompts the client to provide credentials, that is the aforementioned pair. Otherwise, client may supply the credentials without any prompt from the server. This authentication sch...