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Spring Security - Third Edition
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Spring Security - Third Edition

by Mick Knutson, Robert Winch, Peter Mularien
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
14h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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Customizing behavior after login

We have already discussed how to customize a user's experience during login, but sometimes it is necessary to customize the behavior after login. In this section, we will discuss how Spring Security behaves after login and will provide a simple mechanism to customize this behavior.

In the default configuration, Spring Security has two different flows after successful authentication. The first scenario occurs if a user never visits a resource that requires authentication. In this instance, after a successful login attempt, the user will be sent to the defaultSuccessUrl() method chained to the formLogin() method. If left undefined, defaultSuccessUrl() will be the context root of the application.

If a user requests ...

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