Using Zuul as an authentication gateway

Question

Background

I want to implement the design presented in this article.

It can be summarised by the diagram below:

1. The client fi

Answer 1

You could try setting setSendZuulResponse(false) in the current context. This should not route the request. You could also call removeRouteHost() from the context, which would achieve the same. You could usesetResponseStatusCode to set the 401 status code.