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How to work with spring security using cookie to authenticate

Asked by intlgd in Spring, J2EE, Java Server Pages (JSP)

Tags: Spring, Struts2, Acegi

Hello all,

I have a basic understanding of how spring security works from the Spring in Action 2 book, but my situation is a little unique. So let me explain:

We have apache sitting in front of port 80 (on a secured intranet) and authenticate through a proprietary apache module there. This generates an encrypted cookie and stores it so that I can access it from my application. My current authentication method uses a Struts2 action and calls the database to see if the user exists. If he doesn't we automatically create a user in our system with ROLE_BASIC privileges.

What I want to do is tie in spring security so I can secure certain parts of my web application from users typing in the URL. We have roles set up so we're trying to make it roles based access. I was hoping to do this through a configuration instead of littering my JSPs with this stuff.

From what I can tell everything in the Spring In Action 2 example would work except that I am not asking the user to log into a page and I'm also not expecting them to necessarily already have an account.

Any thoughts on how I could use what Spring (Acegi) has, but role in my own unique requirements.

Thanks,

Jared
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