Spring Security keeps redirecting me to login page

Question

What ever link I type in the address bar it keeps redirecting me to the login page. How can I prevent that?

For example if i add http://localhost:8080/asdasdsa > i

Answer 1

Try with 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost.

Explanation

Your browser doesn't set the JSESSIONID cookie for localhost (see this SO question), so when redirecting after successful login the next request looks not authenticated to the server.

If you use idea and you open the browser clicking on the Services panel, you can add this config in your application-dev.yml to fix that:

server:
  address: 127.0.0.1