Spring Security unexpected behavior for REST endpoints authentication?

Question

The scenario we are looking for is as follows:

1. client connects with REST to a REST login url
2. Spring microservice (using Spring Security) should return

Answer 1

You need to override the default logout success handler to avoid redirect. In spring boot2 you can do as below:

....logout().logoutSuccessHandler((httpServletRequest,httpServletResponse,authentication)->{
                //do nothing not to redirect
        })

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