When user directly accessing some restricted url, for the first time, with out login, spring security redirects to login page. If the login is success, the user is redirected to the requested page.Between the user login success and page redirection to requested page, how to initialize user specific settings in http session. What events are available to set the session with logged in user details.
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My intention is not save the user details in the session. Depends on the user, i have to change the displayed content before it goes to some other page after login.
You shouldn't do that - it's a waste of server memory and will affect scalability. Get out of the habit of storing lots of unnecessary data in the session.
The Authentication class that the plugin uses caches the id of the User/Person domain class instance that was used during login. So it's easy to reload the domain class instance - just call def user = springSecurityService.currentUser. This approach has the added benefit of avoiding lazy loading exceptions and other problems with detached Hibernate objects.
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I'm using for first time spring security (3.2.0.RELEASE) and spring webflow (2.4.0.RC1).
I have some pages where user can login (through a modal window). This logins should not redirect user, instead modal window should be closed and actual page is refreshed in order to show the name of logged user.
In addition, in my web there is a webflow, in this webflow is where an order is created. As a last view-state the user must be logged in order to save the order. So if user is not logged at this point, I redirect him to a login page. If user logs in successfully, his order should keep "alive" and user should be redirected to finish view-state.
How can I configure (I'm using java config) the security of my site ?
I used another approach. I always redirect to same page when a user is authenticated and I've added a special view-state to control registration if user is not logged.
I have this web app written in AngularJs that uses cookies to authenticate the requests in a REST API.
Once the user logs in, the cookie is received and saved in the browser and all subsequent requests send the cookie along to the server. There is a 'User' service/object that saves the isLoggedIn and username values (for UI display/flow). Now, if I refresh the 'index' page, the app restarts. This means that my 'User' object will be cleared. I can check the existence of the cookie and, if it exists, I can re-set the User.isLoggeIn as true and go from there, but I still need to get the username, id, etc. So, my question is: should I create some sort of 'ping' endpoint in the API to verify if a cookie is valid? And if so, the API would send me back the user id and username... OR should I persist the user data in LocalStorage (or some similar cross-browser thing) and just assume the user is logged if the cookie exists? Any other subsequent requests to pages that need authentication would be automatically verified. So, this question really only applies to the scenario where the user refreshes the index page - hence, restarting the web app. I want to know the user data because I want to show a 'user homepage' instead of the 'public homepage'.
What do you think?
You should depend on the server for this. Creating something like GetCurrentUser method on the server. If the user is logged on this returns all the properties of the user.
You should even use this server api to get the user data after authentication completes. So the authentication become two step process first the user is authenticated, on success another call is made to server to get current users details.
Using client side local storage for this would not be ideal because you need to do lot of book keeping, in terms of cleaning the logged in user on log out or session expiration.
Also cookies from server would have expiration times an all, and making decision just based on cookie existing on local storage may not be optimal approach.
I'm maintaining a system built in ASP.
The login process is in SSL. Meaning, when the user clicks on "Login", his user name and password are sent securely to the server.
The login process produces a Session object, which is the ID of the now logged-in user.
After finishing the login process, the page redirects the browser to a non secure page. This page tries to access the ID Session object.
Until last week, this worked fine. Our system was running on IIS6.0, and the non-secure page could access this Secure ID Session object.
However, after switching over to IIS7.5, this inevitable security hole was closed(or so I assume). The non-secure page cannot access the Secure ID Session object anymore.
Access to the object is done simply like this:
string ID = Session(SESSION_USER_ID)
just to check things out, I tried access a non-secure Session object from the Secure login pages - this failed as well.
Is there any way to access a Secure Session object from a non-secure page?
BTW, I've probably mistaken with some of the terms here, but I think the scenario is more or less clear. Please tell me if this is not the case.
I've come across this problem before, I ended up getting around it by, when changing into or out of SSL, calling a function that would write the session variables to cookies, and then read back from the cookies into the SSL session variables.
I'm using Spring MVC for a personal webpage with a local Tomcat 6 server. I'm using a default Tomcat configuration(what eclipse would setup by default).
In my controllers(using one controller for each page, and creating Session beans to pass information between them) I have two methods, one for capturing a POST and one for capturing a GET Request Method. The page logic will have the user click a submit button and will use a "redirect:abc.htm" return to send them to a new page or back to the GET method.
I'm not explicitly handling cookies, but do have all the information in Session Beans and am using Spring Security to handle security/user management.
I have a spring security configuration to redirect the user back to the login page if they are not authorized. I also have an ExceptionHandler catching HttpSessionRequiredException, though this is not what is triggering when I expire the user sessions(it's using the logic of my Spring Security configuration).
When the session is expired(I'm doing this through Tomcat manager) the user is redirected back to the login page. They are redirected after they try to do something(click a submit, or revisit any page except login.htm).
My issue is that once they get back to the initial page that their session expired at, if at the time of expiration they clicked a submit button, it is redirecting them past the initial page and handling the POST event from the submit.
Example:
User is logged in, and on the main page
User Session Expires
User, on the main page, click a submit button
User is redirected back to the login.htm page
User logs in and navigates back to the main page.
Instead of following the logic of the GET for the main page, they are treated to the POST of the main page, and I'm not sure where the POST variables are coming from.
Is there any way to trace where this error is coming from or what exactly is causing it?
This is done by spring-security. Spring security stores the request details in the session before redirecting the user to the login page. On successful login it will retrieve the request details from the session and redirect to that.
You can set the always-use-default-target attribute of the form-login configuration to override this behavior.
After the username password login form is submitted (presumably with some kind of encryption through https) how does the server maintain the information that the user is logged in?
The user submits the login form and the server authenticates the user and returns a page. But when the user clicks on a link on that page how does the server know the request it is receiving is coming from someone who is authenticated and therefore the server knows its safe to send the html for that new page.
The act of logging on will usually result in the browser getting a session cookie passed back. It's this cookie that the server uses to identify which session (if any) belongs to the user.
If cookies are disabled on the clients browser, most web programming frameworks will cope by sticking a session ID onto the URL.
the username and some flag like is_logged are stored in the session.
on any page you should check those variables from the current session.
on logout you clean the session or destroy it, thus your protected page is in accessible.
good luck
Arman