Spring Security - Dispatch to /j_spring_security_check

Question

I have spring security in place and login via login.jsp works perfectly fine.

Now, I have to automatically get the user logged in based on the URL (similar to Single

Answer 1

/j_spring_security_check URL is mapped to UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter to serve the requests.

In UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter, by default, the postOnly is set to true.

The following change in spring-security.xml which sets postOnly to false worked.

Also, in web.xml, the following configuration is required:

 springSecurityFilterChain
    /*
    REQUEST
    FORWARD