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“j_spring_security_check” not found after configuring spring security without http namespace

 
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Hi there

I’m trying to convert Spring Security configuration from HTTP namespace into direct configuration using FilterChainProxy. Before the conversion, everything was ok with HTTP namespace. But after replacing <http> element by several elements with FilterChainProxy, I got “j_spring_security_check not found” error while login to the system. I tried to change all or some of “/j_spring_security_check” with “/app/j_spring_security_check” but still could not login successfully.

My environment:
AppFuse 2.1 with Spring MVC, iBatis, Spring Security 3.0.7, tuckey urlrewrite 3.2.0, Spring 3.0.6
Windows 7
JDK 1.5.0_17
Maven 2.2.1

Security.xml (before conversion, everything is OK.)
----------------------------------------------------------------

<http auto-config="true" lowercase-comparisons="false">
<intercept-url pattern="/images/**" filters="none"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/styles/**" filters="none"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/scripts/**" filters="none"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/app/admin/**" access="ROLE_ADMIN"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/app/passwordHint*" access="ROLE_ANONYMOUS,ROLE_ADMIN,ROLE_USER"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/app/signup*" access="ROLE_ANONYMOUS,ROLE_ADMIN,ROLE_USER"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/app/**" access="ROLE_ADMIN,ROLE_USER"/>
<form-login login-page="/login" authentication-failure-url="/login?error=true"
login-processing-url="/j_spring_security_check"/>
<remember-me user-service-ref="userDao" key="e37f4b31-0c45-11dd-bd0b-0800200c9a66"/>
</http>

<authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
<authentication-provider user-service-ref="userDao">
<password-encoder ref="passwordEncoder"/>
</authentication-provider>
</authentication-manager>


Security.xml (after replacing http namespace, "j_spring_security_check" not found)
----------------------------------------------------------------
<beans:bean id="springSecurityFilterChain"
class="org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy">
<filter-chain-map path-type="ant">
<filter-chain pattern="/images/**" filters="none"/>
<filter-chain pattern="/styles/**" filters="none"/>
<filter-chain pattern="/scripts/**" filters="none"/>
<filter-chain pattern="/app/**" filters="
securityContextPersistenceFilter,
authenticationProcessingFilter,
exceptionTranslationFilter,
filterSecurityInterceptor"/>
</filter-chain-map>
</beans:bean>

<beans:bean id="securityContextPersistenceFilter"
class="org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextPersistenceFilter">
</beans:bean>

<beans:bean id="authenticationProcessingFilter"
class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter">
<beans:property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager"/>
<beans:property name="authenticationSuccessHandler" ref="authenticationSuccessHandler"/>
<beans:property name="authenticationFailureHandler" ref="authenticationFailureHandler"/>
<beans:property name="filterProcessesUrl" value="/j_spring_security_check"/>
</beans:bean>

<beans:bean id="authenticationSuccessHandler"
class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.SimpleUrlAuthenticationSuccessHandler">
<beans:property name="defaultTargetUrl" value="/mainMenu"/>
</beans:bean>

<beans:bean id="authenticationFailureHandler"
class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.SimpleUrlAuthenticationFailureHandler">
<beans:property name="defaultFailureUrl" value="/login.jsp"/>
</beans:bean>

<beans:bean id="exceptionTranslationFilter"
class="org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter">
<beans:property name="authenticationEntryPoint" ref="authenticationEntryPoint"/>
<beans:property name="accessDeniedHandler" ref="accessDeniedHandler"/>
</beans:bean>

<beans:bean id="authenticationEntryPoint"
class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.LoginUrlAuthenticationEntryPoint">
<beans:property name="loginFormUrl" value="/login.jsp"/>
</beans:bean>

<beans:bean id="accessDeniedHandler"
class="org.springframework.security.web.access.AccessDeniedHandlerImpl">
<beans:property name="errorPage" value="/403.jsp"/>
</beans:bean>


<beans:bean id="filterSecurityInterceptor"
class="org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor">
<beans:property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager"/>
<beans:property name="accessDecisionManager" ref="accessDecisionManager"/>
<beans:property name="securityMetadataSource">
<filter-security-metadata-source>
<intercept-url pattern="/app/admin/**" access="ROLE_ADMIN"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/app/passwordHint*" access="ROLE_ANONYMOUS,ROLE_ADMIN,ROLE_USER"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/app/signup*" access="ROLE_ANONYMOUS,ROLE_ADMIN,ROLE_USER"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/app/**" access="ROLE_ADMIN,ROLE_USER"/>
</filter-security-metadata-source>
</beans:property>
</beans:bean>

<beans:bean id="myFilterInvocationSecurityMetadataSource"
class="com.tangram.ebiz.webapp.authentication.MyFilterInvocationSecurityMetadataSource">
</beans:bean>

<beans:bean id="accessDecisionManager"
class="org.springframework.security.access.vote.AffirmativeBased">
<beans:property name="decisionVoters">
<beans:list>
<beans:bean class="org.springframework.security.access.vote.RoleVoter">
<beans:property name="rolePrefix" value="ROLE_"/>
</beans:bean>
<beans:bean
class="org.springframework.security.access.vote.AuthenticatedVoter"/>
</beans:list>
</beans:property>
</beans:bean>

<authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
<authentication-provider user-service-ref="userDao">
<password-encoder ref="passwordEncoder"/>
</authentication-provider>
</authentication-manager>

Login.jsp
----------------------------------------------------------------
<form method="post" id="loginForm" action="<c:url value='/j_spring_security_check'/>" onsubmit="saveUsername(this);return validateForm(this)">

<li>
<label for="j_username" class="required desc"><fmt:message key="label.username"/> <span class="req">*</span></label>
<input type="text" class="text medium" name="j_username" id="j_username" tabindex="1" />
</li>

<li>
<label for="j_password" class="required desc"><fmt:message key="label.password"/> <span class="req">*</span></label>
<input type="password" class="text medium" name="j_password" id="j_password" tabindex="2" />
</li>

</form>

Urlrewrite.xml
----------------------------------------------------------------
<urlrewrite default-match-type="wildcard">

<!-- Add rules here for anything that shouldn't be served up by Spring MVC. -->
<rule>
<from>/</from>
<to type="redirect" last="true">mainMenu</to>
</rule>
<rule>
<from>/app/**</from>
<to last="true" type="redirect">%{context-path}/$1</to>
</rule>
<rule>
<from>/j_spring_security_check**</from>
<to last="true">/j_spring_security_check$1</to>
</rule>


<!-- Spring MVC -->
<rule>
<from>/**</from>
<to>/app/$1</to>
</rule>
<outbound-rule>
<from>/app/**</from>
<to>/$1</to>
</outbound-rule>

</urlrewrite>



 
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What server are you deploying on?

Mark
 
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Mark Spritzler wrote:What server are you deploying on?

Mark



Windows 7
JDK 1.5.0_17
Maven 2.2.1
 
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bwwlpnn Wu wrote:

Mark Spritzler wrote:What server are you deploying on?

Mark



Windows 7
JDK 1.5.0_17
Maven 2.2.1



No, I mean the Java application, are you deploying on Tomcat, JBoss, Weblogic, WebSphere etc.

Thanks

Mark
 
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Mark Spritzler wrote:

bwwlpnn Wu wrote:

Mark Spritzler wrote:What server are you deploying on?

Mark



Windows 7
JDK 1.5.0_17
Maven 2.2.1



No, I mean the Java application, are you deploying on Tomcat, JBoss, Weblogic, WebSphere etc.

Thanks

Mark



My server is apache-tomcat-6.0.32.
 
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Finally I fixed it myself.

While debugging the doFilter() method of SecurityContextPersistenceFilter without Spring security namespace, I found that contextBeforeChainExecution and contextAfterChainExecution were null. But when debugging the program with namespace the value of both of them were something about Anonymous.

I added “/j_spring_security_check” and “/login” with “IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY” access in securityMetadataSource as shown below and the problem was solved.

<beans:property name="securityMetadataSource">
<filter-security-metadata-source>
<intercept-url pattern="/j_spring_security_check" access="IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/login" access="IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/app/admin/**" access="ROLE_ADMIN"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/app/passwordHint*" access="ROLE_ANONYMOUS,ROLE_ADMIN,ROLE_USER"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/app/signup*" access="ROLE_ANONYMOUS,ROLE_ADMIN,ROLE_USER"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/app/**" access="ROLE_ADMIN,ROLE_USER"/>
</filter-security-metadata-source>
</beans:property>

This blog really helped me a lot: http://blog.springsource.com/2010/03/06/behind-the-spring-security-namespace/

 
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Glad you fixed it. Was at first expecting you to say you were deploying on WebSphere which has a problem and the only way to fix that was to include a file named j_spring_security_check in your war file.

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mark how is your solution? mind describe it?
 
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