Spring Security 3 programmatically login

Question

I\'m creating a REST web service using spring and I need to implement login/logout functions in it. The url for the functions should be something like .../api/login and .../api/

Answer 1

Not sure if this is what you need. Programmatically call http://localhost:8080/webappname/j_spring_security_check Pass the username password in form parameters j_username and j_password. In the security-app-context.xml replace form-login element with

Implement spring's AuthenticationSuccessHandler and AuthenticationFailureHandler. The default behavior is to redirect to login form.