Filter chain invoked for both initial request URL and view?

[nesyarug]

Hi.

I have a question about Spring Security and the invocation of the filter chain. What I can see in the logs is that when a request for say "/" comes in, the filter chain is invoked and does its work. This is what I expect to happen. Then the controller is invoked and the controller returns a specific view (say "/WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp"). What then happens is something I would not expect as the filter chain is invoked again against "/WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp".

Is that normal behavior?

Many thanks for any clarification on this topic.

BR,
Nes

[Rob Winch]

What does the web.xml look like? If the springSecurityFilterChain is setup to process FORWARDS it will process the jsp as well. Specifically make sure you have this:

  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </filter-mapping>

and not this:

  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
    <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
  </filter-mapping>

[nesyarug]

Thanks! That worked and solved a heap of other problems too (jsp includes not working ao). Not sure how or when those tags sneaked in. I was in the middle of refactoring offloading static content to the web server. Anyway, thanks for your help. Very much appreciated as I can continue now