Question

I am trying to use spring security in my application developing restful web services and not getting the way how to send request to j_spring_security_check directly so that i can provide same url as a web service to Authorization of username and password.

Currently i am using following request pattern:

URL: “http://localhost:8080/CabFMS/j_spring_security_check”
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Body: {‘j_username’:’user’,’j_password’:’123′}

Response: is Bad credentials

I am not sure about Content-type and body parameters. Please provide suggestion. To send request i am using REST Client

Tarun Gupta

Answer 1

As you correctly noticed j_spring_security_checks expects application/x-www-form-urlencoded content, therefore you need to encode it as such:

j_username=user&j_password=123