Sending GET request with Authentication headers using restTemplate

Question

I need to retrieve a resources from my server by sending a GET request with the some Authorization headers using RestTemplate.

After going over the docs I noticed that

Answer 1

You're not missing anything. RestTemplate#exchange(..) is the appropriate method to use to set request headers.

Here's an example (with POST, but just change that to GET and use the entity you want).

Here's another example.

Note that with a GET, your request entity doesn't have to contain anything (unless your API expects it, but that would go against the HTTP spec). It can be an empty String.