Correct use of WebSecurity in WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter

Question

In my Spring Boot application based on version 1.3.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT, I have the static resources (images, css, js) in the static folder un

Answer 1

Well in the code you shared, if you had your static files i.e. CSS/JS etc in a folder called static then all your static resources will be added to the page whereas if you left out

web.ignoring()
    .antMatchers("/static/**");

none of your static resources will be loaded.

Spring Security is extremely powerful, Spring has great documentation so you should just go read about it fully appreciate/understand it.

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