401 instead of 403 with Spring Boot 2

Question

With Spring Boot 1.5.6.RELEASE I was able to send HTTP Status code 401 instead of 403 as described in How let spring security response una

Answer 1

Http401AuthenticationEntryPoint was removed.

See Spring Boot Github Repo > Issue #10715 (Remove Http401AuthenticationEntryPoint):

Remove Http401AuthenticationEntryPoint

rwinch commented on 20 Oct 2017
As far as I can tell it is not being used in the Spring Boot code base, so it might be good to remove Http401AuthenticationEntryPoint.

Depending on your requirements, you could use:

• HttpStatusEntryPoint
• BasicAuthenticationEntryPoint