Basic Authentication service called By Zuul

Question

I\'m Zuul as edge server. so all request pass by this edge server. I have a micro-service A. all web services of A are protected by Basic Authentication. How can we call the

Answer 1

You can call (through Zuul) your service A like this :

https://login:password@zuulurl.com/serviceA

but firslty allow AUTHORIZATION header through Zuul for this specific service (route) with the property sensitiveHeaders in your properties file :

zuul.routes.serviceA.sensitiveHeaders=Cookie,Set-Cookie

or let it empty if you want to pass the Cookie headers too.

Here more informations about headers through Zuul