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Clarify @WithSecurityContext thread scope #18812

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Expand Up @@ -184,6 +184,13 @@ You can change this to happen during the `TestExecutionListener.beforeTestExecut
@WithSecurityContext(setupBefore = TestExecutionEvent.TEST_EXECUTION)
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`@WithMockUser`, `@WithUserDetails`, and `@WithSecurityContext` populate the xref:servlet/authentication/architecture.adoc#servlet-authentication-securitycontextholder[`SecurityContextHolder`] for the test thread.
This works for method-security tests and for xref:servlet/test/mockmvc/index.adoc[`MockMvc`] (when using `testSecurityContext()`), but does not automatically apply to full HTTP requests made through external clients (for example, REST-assured against a running server), because those requests are handled on a different thread.
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For end-to-end HTTP tests, xref:servlet/authentication/index.adoc[authenticate] the request itself (for example, with HTTP Basic or a bearer token).
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