Problem getting SecurityContext using SecurityContextHolder

[iulian]

Hello,

I am experiencing the following problem: after a successful login with ACEGI (using LDAP provider), I cannot access the newly SecurityContext using SescurityContextHolder.getSecurityContext() - the method returns null, but it works just fine if I get it from HTTP Session, by searching for the attribute HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.ACEGI_SECURITY _CONTEXT_KEY.

Any idea? Am I missing a setting somewhere?
If you need more details, let me know

Thanks.

[Luke Taylor]

This should be impossible. SecurityContextHolder.getContext() is guaranteed not to return null.

[iulian]

Actually, I made a mistake. The context is indeed not null, but the method getAuthentication, called on the context retrieved by using SecurityContextHolder.getContext() is null.

This is not happening when I get it from the HTTP session.