I have a problem in my spring boot app with the csrf token.
I have a form where I can edit a Person. A Person can have
Let us now imagine that the person has
Another way, you can use the following code:
$.ajax({
url : './delete/car',
headers: {"X-CSRF-TOKEN": $("input[name='_csrf']").val()},
type : 'POST',
success : function(result) {
alert(result.msgDetail);
}
})
I suggest you first check if a valid csrf token and the header have been generated using chrome debugger. If not, then have you added the <sec:csrfMetaTags />
in the <head>
?(you will need to import the spring security taglibs). If using Apache tiles, you will have to add this at the <head>
section of the template file being used for the view.
If the token is not empty, then in your security-context/configuration file, check if you have disabled csrf security by any chance. By default it is enabled and needs to be for this process to work.
OK, after strugglin with all that, I get the following result.
I added the fail
method to the Ajax construct and get the following message:
"Failed to execute 'setRequestHeader' on 'XMLHttpRequest': '${_csrf.headerName}' is not a valid HTTP header field name."
the official spring site advises that you have to put this: <sec:csrfMetaTags />
or from other sources, this: <meta name="_csrf" th:content="${_csrf.token}"/>
in your html file.
After this, you should be able to access these attributes in your JavaScript, but in my case I get undefined
and ${_csrf.headerName}
.
A last try was to take the value from the hidden value (chapter 24.5: http://docs.spring.io/autorepo/docs/spring-security/4.0.0.CI-SNAPSHOT/reference/htmlsingle/#the-csrfmetatags-tag).
Now, I have the following:
$(function () {
var token = $("input[name='_csrf']").val();
var header = "X-CSRF-TOKEN";
$(document).ajaxSend(function(e, xhr, options) {
xhr.setRequestHeader(header, token);
});
});
$.ajax({
url: "./delete/car",
type: "POST",
success:function(response) {
alert(response);
}
});
With this it works like a charm.