Spring security 3 issue with INTERCEPT-URL

[springfan101]

I have been reading the documentation and example but not able to resolve some of the issues with spring security and my project
I'm using spring security 3 in my project and the following config for intercept-url

<intercept-url pattern="/secure/user/**"
access="hasRole('ROLE_USER')"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/secure/admin/**"
access="hasRole('ROLE_ADMIN')"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/secure/**"
access="isAuthenticated()" />
<intercept-url pattern="/**"
access="permitAll" />

and here is a snap of my jsp code url references
<a href="secure/admin/adduser.html"..
<a href="secure/finduser.html" ..

here are the issues I see with the configuration
1.once a user login all browser link includes a secure syntax in the link for example in the jsp even though the link is “secure/finduser.html” but the browser link display is secure/secure/finduser.html so once the link is used it goes to xx/secure/secure/finduser.html
2.once you click on any link the image, style and js links are now secure/image, secure/style and secure/js therefor they can not be found.. for example the reference to style
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="../style/style.css" /> but now the style reference link can only be found from xx/secure/style/style.css
3.if a user click on
<a href="secure/admin/adduser.html" then all subsequent links will include secure/admin to the link for example the link above will end up in
xx/secure/admin/secure/admin/adduser.html so therefor not found and returns http status 404 for page not found....

does any one has any idea why..

thanks again. -

[pmularien]

This is an application issue and not related to Spring Security.

Are you deploying your web app to the root context of your application server?

[springfan101]

Thank you for your reply and time
you are absolutely right , this issue has nothing to do with spring security but rather application configuration itself...after using a different path other then the one in spring security configuration still has the same result..
and yes I do have my web app to the root context of tomcat
but sill puzzle to why the the first part of any link <a href=”xxxx/someAction.html the xxxx would be included in the subsequent calls , I think I would for sure need to go back to basic and do more search..
thanks again for your help...