intercept-url pattern /** causing 404 error

Question

I have searched here, google and springsource for this and could not find a solution that worked for me. I have the below spring-security.xml and when I use the pattern

Answer 1

Adds an AnonymousAuthenticationFilter to the stack and an AnonymousAuthenticationProvider. Required if you are using the IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY attribute. spring secuirty

or use isAnonymous() instead.