Question

Currently it secures the jsp pages and can display them BUT the REST endpoints CAN NOT be found (404 for all rest AJAX Calls). I have done other things to change it were it finds the rest endpoints, but then the HTML cant be found and the security checks arent being performed.

What am I missing?

security.xml

<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
  xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.1.xsd">

    <http pattern="/images/**" security="none"/>
    <http pattern="/css/**" security="none"/>
    <http pattern="/js/**" security="none"/>
    <http auto-config="true" disable-url-rewriting="true">
         <intercept-url pattern="/login-page.html" access="ROLE_ANONYMOUS"/>
         <intercept-url pattern="/**" access="ROLE_USER, ROLE_ADMIN" />
        <form-login login-page='/login-page.html' default-target-url="/static-page.jsp" />
    </http>
    <authentication-manager>
        <authentication-provider>
            <jdbc-user-service data-source-ref="dataSource"
                users-by-username-query="select USERNAME, PASSWORD, ENABLED 
                    from USERS where USERNAME=?" 
                authorities-by-username-query="
                    select U.USERNAME, UR.AUTHORITY from USERS U, ROLES UR 
                    where U.USERNAME=UR.USERNAME and U.USERNAME=?"      
            />
        </authentication-provider>
    </authentication-manager>
</beans:beans>

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>classpath:server-context.xml, classpath:spring-security.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener</listener-class>
    </listener>
    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>jersey-servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
            com.sun.jersey.spi.spring.container.servlet.SpringServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>
            <param-value>service.admin</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>com.sun.jersey.api.json.POJOMappingFeature</param-name>
            <param-value>true</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>jersey-servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/test-app/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>
</web-app>

Under webapp folder I have the js & css & images folders plus the *.html and *.jsp files under WEB-INF is where the web.xml folder is. Is there someplace else I should put the html files and how would I map it in the web.xml.

Answer 1

In order to secure your HTML files, you’ll first need to place them in a secure location. The WEB-INF folder is the only folder deployed in your application that is not accessible by HTTP; thus, a folder there is a good place to keep your HTML files. I recommend /WEB-INF/html.

Next, you’ll need to tell Spring to map all requests for *.html to the /WEB-INF/html folder. This needs to be placed inside a xml element in your Spring servlet.xml file.

html-servlet.xml:

<mvc:resources mapping="/**" location="/WEB-INF/html/" />

See How To Secure MVC Resources for more information.

You’ll need to add some http entries in your security.xml file for each HTML file:

<intercept-url pattern="/users-only.html" access="ROLE_USER" />

This uses the Spring filter to check the resource and redirect it based on the user’s role.

Lastly, you’ll need an entry in web.xml for a servlet that handles requests to *.html:

web.xml:

<!--  Security -->
<servlet>
    <servlet-name>html</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/html-servlet.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>
</servlet>

<!--  Secure static HTML files. See applicationContext-Security.xml intercept-url for individual HTML file control over security.-->
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>html</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>