How to login to a spring security login form using cURL?

Question

I am working on a springMVC project in which the user authentication is based on spring security.

the idea is to have a mobile (android) application to be able to se

Answer 1

You should configure spring to support basic authentication. Then add to your request the following header:

• name: Authorization
• value: base64(username:password)

That means that user name and password should be cocatenated into one string with : as separator and then transformed using BASE64 transformation.