Spring Security redirect to previous page after successful login

Question

I know this question has been asked before, however I\'m facing a particular issue here.

I use spring security 3.1.3.

I have 3 possible login cases in my web

Answer 1

I want to extend Olcay's nice answer. His approach is good, your login page controller should be like this to put the referrer url into session:

@RequestMapping(value = "/login", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String loginPage(HttpServletRequest request, Model model) {
    String referrer = request.getHeader("Referer");
    request.getSession().setAttribute("url_prior_login", referrer);
    // some other stuff
    return "login";
}

And you should extend SavedRequestAwareAuthenticationSuccessHandler and override its onAuthenticationSuccess(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Authentication authentication) method. Something like this:

public class MyCustomLoginSuccessHandler extends SavedRequestAwareAuthenticationSuccessHandler {
    public MyCustomLoginSuccessHandler(String defaultTargetUrl) {
        setDefaultTargetUrl(defaultTargetUrl);
    }

    @Override
    public void onAuthenticationSuccess(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Authentication authentication) throws ServletException, IOException {
        HttpSession session = request.getSession();
        if (session != null) {
            String redirectUrl = (String) session.getAttribute("url_prior_login");
            if (redirectUrl != null) {
                // we do not forget to clean this attribute from session
                session.removeAttribute("url_prior_login");
                // then we redirect
                getRedirectStrategy().sendRedirect(request, response, redirectUrl);
            } else {
                super.onAuthenticationSuccess(request, response, authentication);
            }
        } else {
            super.onAuthenticationSuccess(request, response, authentication);
        }
    }
}

Then, in your spring configuration, you should define this custom class as a bean and use it on your security configuration. If you are using annotation config, it should look like this (the class you extend from WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter):

@Bean
public AuthenticationSuccessHandler successHandler() {
    return new MyCustomLoginSuccessHandler("/yourdefaultsuccessurl");
}

In configure method:

@Override
protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
    http
            // bla bla
            .formLogin()
                .loginPage("/login")
                .usernameParameter("username")
                .passwordParameter("password")
                .successHandler(successHandler())
                .permitAll()
            // etc etc
    ;
}