Basic HTTP authentication with Jersey / Grizzly

Question

I\'ve written a simple REST server using JAX-RS, Jersey and Grizzly. This is how I start the server:

URI baseUri = UriBuilder.fromUri(\"http://localhost/api\         


        

Answer 1

You may want to check HTTPS Client Server Grizzly sample distributed with Jersey which exactly does that. Here is a gist from that sample on configuring security filters on the Grizzly server.

    WebappContext context = new WebappContext("context");
    ServletRegistration registration = 
            context.addServlet("ServletContainer", ServletContainer.class);
    registration.setInitParameter("com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages",
            "com.sun.jersey.samples.https_grizzly.resource;com.sun.jersey.samples.https_grizzly.auth");

    // add security filter (which handles http basic authentication)
    registration.setInitParameter(ResourceConfig.PROPERTY_CONTAINER_REQUEST_FILTERS,
            "com.sun.jersey.samples.https_grizzly.auth.SecurityFilter;com.sun.jersey.api.container.filter.LoggingFilter");
    registration.setInitParameter(ResourceConfig.PROPERTY_CONTAINER_RESPONSE_FILTERS,
            LoggingFilter.class.getName());


    try {

        webServer = GrizzlyServerFactory.createHttpServer(
                getBaseURI()
        );

        // start Grizzly embedded server //
        System.out.println("Jersey app started. Try out " + BASE_URI + "\nHit CTRL + C to stop it...");
        context.deploy(webServer);
        webServer.start();

    } catch (Exception ex) {
        System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
    }

You are registering a SecurityFilter which takes care of your HTTP basic auth. Enabling logging filter on the server should show basic auth header in the request. Here is an example:

Jan 30, 2013 8:59:00 PM com.sun.jersey.api.container.filter.LoggingFilter filter
INFO: 1 * Server in-bound request
1 > GET http://localhost:8080/context/
1 > host: localhost:8080
1 > connection: keep-alive
1 > cache-control: max-age=0
1 > authorization: Basic dXNlcjpwYXNzd29yZA==
1 > accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
1 > user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.57 Safari/537.17
1 > accept-encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
1 > accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.8
1 > accept-charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
1 > 

Service: GET / User: user
Jan 30, 2013 8:59:00 PM com.sun.jersey.api.container.filter.LoggingFilter$Adapter finish
INFO: 1 * Server out-bound response
1 < 200
1 < Content-Type: text/html
1 < 
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