Spring Webflux WebClient : Does it supports digest based authentication?

Question

I have just looked around all spring 5 documentation but did not find anything related to WebClient supports digest based authentication out of the box. Is there any workaround to use webClient and still call digest based secured APIs?

Answer 1

No, there is no such support at the moment.

You could look at implementing your own client support by implementing a org.springframework.web.reactive.function.client.ExchangeFunction.

Alternatively (and because rolling your own support might be difficult), you could create a new issue on the Spring Security project and see of the community is interested in such a feature.