Make spring security add the return to url in the query string for the login page

Question

Earlier I asked if it was possible to get the original request url in the form login page in Spring Security 2. Turns out that actually won\'t help me, what I need is for th

Answer 1

I guess you need to use spring-security-redirect. Essentially, if your url is of the form /login.html?spring-security-redirect=/secure.html, spring security will automagically redirect to secure.html on successful login.

As of spring 3.1.x this no longer works out-of-the-box. You'll need to add:

authentication-success-handler-ref="simpleUrlAuthenticationSuccessHandler"

...to your element and add a bean that looks like: