Spring Security targetUrlParameter does not redirect

Question

I\'m trying to redirect the user back to the page where they clicked the login link. (Pages are read-only for non-authenticated users, but writable for logged in users.) How

Answer 1

The following generic solution can be used with regular login, a Spring Social login, or most other Spring Security filters.

In your Spring MVC controller, when loading the read-only page, save the path to the page in the session if user has not been logged in. In XML config, set the default target url. For example:

In your Spring MVC controller, the redirect method should read out the path from the session and return redirect:.

So, after user logs in, they'll be sent to /redirect page, which will promptly redirect them back to the page that they last visited.