spring is not redirecting to default target url?

Question

I am using spring security for authentication. authentication is working fine. but after authentication it is not redirecting to the html that have mentioned using default target url in spring security configuration file. i am getting simple message Success. but not the html page that have configured. i have added below line for redirection.

<form-login login-page="/login.jsp" default-target-url="/welcome.html"/>

am i missing anything to configure.

Thanks!

Answer 1

If a user is sent to the login page after requesting a protected resource, they will be sent to the originally requested page after successful login. The default-target-url will only be used if the user logged in without requesting a protected resource first (i.e. they navigated directly to the login page). If you always want to go to the default-target-url you can specify always-use-default-target="true" as shown in the example below

<form-login login-page="/login.jsp" 
            default-target-url="/welcome.html" 
            always-use-default-target="true"/>