I am working on a web service. I want to return the 401: Unauthorized response to the user for invalid credentials.
How do I manually return this response code?
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assuming you are using servlets, you would set the http status to 401 using the
setStatusmethod:httpResponse.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_UNAUTHORIZED);HttpServletResponse info