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Asked: 2026-05-22T14:30:38+00:00

In certain scenarios I want to forcefully logout a user. I’m using Spring Security

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In certain scenarios I want to forcefully logout a user. I’m using Spring Security and the only way I know how to do this is to forward/redirect to /logout (or whatever URL Spring listens to for logout attempts). Since in theory a user could stop his browser from following a redirect, I’d rather do a forward to the logout URL, as it’s very important that the logout logic is carried out. Since Spring will always do a redirect after a (un)successful logout, I’m wondering if this will be a problem. So, in short, is redirecting allowed after the request has already been forwarded, or will it result in an IllegalStateException?

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    So, in short, is redirecting allowed after the request has already been forwarded, or will it result in an IllegalStateException?

    No, it’s absolutely fine. The response itself has no knowledge of the forwarding – it occurs purely within the internals of the server. Forwarding is simply a mechanism for internal transfer of control from one server component to another.

    In contrast, you generally cannot forward after redirecting, since redirecting “commits” the response, and there’s no undoing that.

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