How to handle HTTP 403 with Spring Security 3.0.x

Question

I\'m facing a little issue with Spring Security 3.0.x (3.0.2 in particular at the moment). The whole application I\'m working on is working perfectly except when someone who doe

Answer 1

A cleaner way to handle error redirects is to use the and tags in your web.xml. See below for an example:

    
        403
        /403.jsp
    

This block of code will redirect to the specified location whenever it encounters the specified error code.

This eliminates the need for authorization code inside your application logic.