problem with hiding the url of entry-point

[Shining77]

Hello,

I have the following problem:

I am using Spring Security and my entry-point is

<security:form-login login-page="/index.htm" default-target-url="/start.htm" always-use-default-target="true" authentication-failure-url="/index.htm" />

So when I am starting my tomcat and go to localhost:8080 and then he redirect automatically to index.htm

So far so good that the correct behavior. But in my case I do not want to see this localhost:8080/index.htm in the browser, but only localhost:8080

Is there a possiblity with this redirect without displaying the URL in the browser?

[Rob Winch]

I assume you mean you want to forward to the login url as apposed to perform a redirect? Checkout LoginUrlAuthenticationEntryPoint and the useForward attribute. You can then specify the AuthenticationEntryPoint using http@entry-point-ref.

[Shining77]

That is working now with the forward, many thanks!

Now my last problem: When I call a secured URL with no user login, it is now not jumping to my entry point anymore.

My configuration is the following one:

<security:http entry-point-ref="loginUrlAuthenticationEntryPoint" auto-config="true" use-expressions="true" disable-url-rewriting="true">
<security:intercept-url pattern="/user/**" access="hasRole('ROLE_USER')" />
<security:form-login login-page="/index.htm" default-target-url="/start.htm" always-use-default-target="true" authentication-failure-url="/index.htm" />
<security:logout />
<session-management session-authentication-strategy-ref="sas" />
</security:http>

<beans:bean id="loginUrlAuthenticationEntryPoint"
class="org.springframework.security.web.authentica tion.LoginUrlAuthenticationEntryPoint">
<beansroperty name="loginFormUrl" value="/index.htm" />
<beansroperty name="useForward" value="true" />
</beans:bean>

My call of /user/home.htm without any user login do not correctly redirect to my index.htm, but open the /user/home.htm which is actually not permitted.

What might the failure here? Before I am using the entry-point everything has gone well.