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

In case you don't need to use Thymeleaf, I'd suggest the following:

1. Add this to the top of your page:

   <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
   

2. Add this to your login form:

3. Add these dependencies to your pom.xml:

   
       org.apache.tomcat.embed
       tomcat-embed-jasper
       provided
   
   
       javax.servlet
       jstl
      
   

After struggling a lot, that worked for me.