How to make Spring Security application to run behind a proxy?

Question

We have an application build on Java 1.6 with Spring 3.0.3 that use Spring Security 3.0.5 and implements REST API using Spring Web with RestEasy 2.1.0. I need to place this

Answer 1

Not entirely relative, but probably you might want to have a look into a 4th option using the org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver to rewrite the redirected URL with your external hostname as described in this answer: Override the default redirect URL in a SpringMVC application.