Question

I have the following servlet definitions:

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>licenseGenService</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.context.support.HttpRequestHandlerServlet</servlet-class>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>licenseGenService</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/remoting/licensing</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <!-- Restful API Servlet-->
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>licensingRestService</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>
                com.mydomain.licensing.rest
            </param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>licensingRestService</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

And then the following security filter:

    <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>

So based on what I have read, url patterns with /* are overwritten by those with explicit urls. This works fine for my servlets. The things is, I do not want basic authentication required for the licenseGenService servlet. How can I define the security filter to only apply to the REST servlet, and not the licenseGenService one?

Answer 1

I ended up placing the following in my security application context:

<http pattern="/remoting/**" security="none"/>

This works for Spring 3.1