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LDAP with Spring Security

11 Jan 2019
Posted by Steven

I spend quite some time implementing a login using Active Directory via LDAP for our Spring Boot 2 application, using Spring Security. This article outlines the implementation options I faced. On my quest to solve the many problems I encountered with this, I learned that there is not much documentation available in the web. I hope this article is of some help for other developers.

I will use the term "LDAP" when refering to the Active Directory because that's what most developers do when they mean "authorization using LDAP".

lessons learned + News in December 2018

29 Dec 2018
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in December 2018:

Using Spring's @Value with Defaults

26 Dec 2018
Posted by Steven

Some values of an application have to be provided from "the outside" of the application, for example the secret of a JSON Web Token (JWT). This secret must remain private and must not be shared. Hence, it cannot be written in a properties file, especially not in an open-sourced project.

In a local environment and also in a deployed state, this can be done by providing an environment variable:

Force https in Angular application deployed on Pivotal Cloud Foundry

21 Dec 2018
Posted by Steven

This will be a short one.

I am working on an Angular 6 application that is deployed on a Pivotal Cloud Foundry, using the nginx-buildpack. With the default nginx.conf, http and https requests are served. The https request is secured using the certificate for *cfapps.io, which is nice to have without any configuration.

However, allowing http requests opens the door for accidental unencrypted logins, which I want to avoid. Hence, I want to forward all http-requests to https.

Here's the working nginx.conf for this:

Angular 6 on Cloud Foundry with URLs without Hash

21 Dec 2018
Posted by Steven

This article is about deploying an Angular 6 application to Pivotal Cloud Foundry so that URLs without a hash can be used.

Agile Management Innovations

19 Dec 2018
Posted by Steven

Somehow, I came across this great article about what to do to build a great work environment in an agile enterprise. In this short reflection, I want to highlight some of the (for me) most interesting thoughts.

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