How to check user is validated?

[lilolme]

I am using spring security for authentication, however I need to add a check against a status field to see if the user
has validated their email address. If the user has not validated it should redirect to another page that asks the users to check their email.

Is there some option to redirect to a different url in this situation? or some other meaningful way to do this?

In Security.xml
		<form-login login-page="/signin" 
			login-processing-url="/signin/authenticate" 
			authentication-failure-url="/signin?param.error=bad_credentials" />

This is kind of urgent as our application went live and is currently wide open. Please help!!!

[Rob Winch]

I would create a custom filter that does the check. It intercepts all URLs except for the URL that updates the status.