How can I get the username from a failed login using spring security?

Question

We\'re using spring security 3.0.5, Java 1.6 and Tomcat 6.0.32. In our .xml config file we\'ve got:

Answer 1

I did it this way:

1. Created a class that extends SimpleUrlAuthenticationFailureHandler

2. Overrid the onAuthenticationFailure method, which receives an HttpServletRequest as a parameter.

3. request.getParameter("username"), where "username" is the name of my input in my HTML form.