ajax login with spring webMVC and spring security

Question

I\'ve been using Spring Security 3.0 for our website login mechanism using a dedicated login webpage. Now I need that login webpage to instead be a lightbox/popup window on

Answer 1

I did something similar (thanks axtavt):

public class AjaxAuthenticationSuccessHandler extends
    SimpleUrlAuthenticationSuccessHandler {

public void onAuthenticationSuccess(HttpServletRequest request,
        HttpServletResponse response, Authentication auth)
        throws IOException, ServletException {
    if ("XMLHttpRequest".equals(request.getHeader("X-Requested-With"))) {
        response.getWriter().print(
                "{success:true, targetUrl : \'"
                        + this.getTargetUrlParameter() + "\'}");
        response.getWriter().flush();
    } else {
        super.onAuthenticationSuccess(request, response, auth);
    }
}}

I chose to extend the simple success handler for the default behavior on non-Ajax requests. Here's the XML to make it work:

    
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