Can't create CSRF token with Spring Security

Question

I am using Spring Security 3.2.3 in my Spring MVC application and getting some unexpected behavior.

According to the documentation here, it should be possible to us

Answer 1

I started with the same source article as you, I think, and the same "you should be able to" add answers as you did. I fought it a different way. I made Thymeleaf give me the answer I wanted.

Thymeleaf put the attribute "content" with the requested Spring EL contents. I then used the provided JavaScript/JQuery to extract the info from the meta tags straight into the CSRF header.