How to set up Spring security to authenticate signed requests?

Question

Hi

Does spring support authentication of signed requests? (like those provided by open social Signed authorization ,i.e open social makeRequest API)

if so, how do you configure it?

Best Regards

Yaniv

Answer 1

Based on the Spring Security site it looks like it does not support it. But nothing stops you from implementing it. You will have to implement custom AbstractProcessingFilter (just like there is a filter for CAS CasProcessingFilter, login form AuthenticationProcessingFilter and OpenId OpenIDAuthenticationProcessingFilter). You might also have to implement AuthenticationProvider and configure it similar to this:

<bean id="authenticationManager" class="org.springframework.security.providers.ProviderManager">
<property name="providers">
    <list>
      <ref local="myAuthenticationProvider" />
    </list>
  </property>
</bean>