hi,
I am trying to setup a https connection for a Restful spring web service.

<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/applicationContext.xml,
/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFil terProxy</filter-class>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<http auto-config="true" >
<intercept-url pattern="/**" access="IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY" requires-channel="https" />
<port-mappings>
<port-mapping http="8280" https="8304"/>
</port-mappings>
<http-basic />
</http>

<authentication-manager>
<authentication-provider>
<user-service>
<user name="bob" password="bobspassword" authorities="ROLE_USER" />
</user-service>
</authentication-provider>
</authentication-manager>

When i use the normal url it is redirected to the https and works fine. My question is do i still need the authentication-provider tag ? Is there some default setting/configuration that can be used since i am using "IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY" and not the role i have defined ?.

regards