Lessons learnt: Of Spring Boot + OAuth2 + redirect URIs

TL;DR: make sure NGINX is setup correctly (proxy_set_header) before messing around with your code. Scenario: Deploying a Spring Boot micro-service behind an NGINX reverse proxy gave us issues when using default Google OAuth2 configuration as described here , basically showing the "Redirect URI Mismatch" mentioned at the very end of the linked article Trying the solution based … Continue reading Lessons learnt: Of Spring Boot + OAuth2 + redirect URIs

Google Yolo and Spring Boot 2.0 Authentication

Back in 2016, Google announced the "Open Yolo" project: You Only Login Once. It originally seemed to be an Android library but during Google's last Dev Summit in October 2017, Google released "One-tap Sign-ups On Websites and API Integrations" which brings Google Yolo to your website via JavaScript goodness. There's a very easy guide that … Continue reading Google Yolo and Spring Boot 2.0 Authentication