How to replace form-login

[brewsterr]

I presume that the login processing URL is the filterProcessesUrl on my custom AuthenticationProcessingFilter:

<property name="filterProcessesUrl" value="/j_security_check"/>

Someone else may know more about what <form-login login-processing-url="/path"> actually does.

Richard

[J Ball]

I have no idea what form-login does but when I replaced "j_security_check" with "processLogin" it got passed my previous error. I'm not sure if this will cause a negative effect later.

Can someone help clear up what form-login is doing and how replacing it should be configured?

[Luke Taylor]

form-login creates an AuthenticationProcessingFilter. This is explained here

http://static.springframework.org/sp...custom-filters

You need to understand how this and the other filters work if you are going to customize them. The property "filterProcessesUrl" aka "login-processing-url" defaults to "/j_spring_security_check" and is the URL that the login form should submit to and which the filter will intercept to handle the login request. Using "/j_security_check" is not a good idea as that is the default J2EE form login URL and some containers may choose to process it themselves without presenting it to the application.