By default, if no login form is specified, Spring Security will create a default login form automatically.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a custom login form for Spring Security (XML example).
Technologies used :
- Spring 3.2.8.RELEASE
- Spring Security 3.2.3.RELEASE
- Eclipse 4.2
- JDK 1.6
- Maven 3
1. Project Demo
2. Directory Structure
Review the final directory structure of this tutorial.
3. Spring Security Configuration
Defined your custom login form in Spring XML file. See explanation below :
- login-page=”/login”
– The page to display the custom login form
- authentication-failure-url=”/login?error”
– If authentication failed, forward to page /login?error
- logout-success-url=”/login?logout”
– If logout successful, forward to view /logout
- username-parameter=”username”
– The name of the request which contains the “username
”. In HTML, this is the name of the input text.
- <csrf/>
– Enable the Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection, refer to this link. In XML, by default, CSRF protection is disabled.
Normally, we don’t involve in the authentication like login or logout processing, let Spring handle it, we just handle the successful or failed page to display.
spring-security.xml
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.2.xsd">
<http auto-config="true">
<intercept-url pattern="/admin**" access="ROLE_USER" />
<form-login
login-page="/login"
default-target-url="/welcome"
authentication-failure-url="/login?error"
username-parameter="username"
password-parameter="password" />
<logout logout-success-url="/login?logout" />
<!-- enable csrf protection -->
<csrf/>
</http>
<authentication-manager>
<authentication-provider>
<user-service>
<user name="mkyong" password="123456" authorities="ROLE_USER" />
</user-service>
</authentication-provider>
</authentication-manager>
</beans:beans>
In above congratulation, the /admin
and sub-folders of it are all password protected.
Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Protection
If CSRF
is enabled, you have to include a _csrf.token
in the page you want to login or logout. Refer to below login.jsp
and admin.jsp
(logout form). Otherwise, both login and logout function will be failed.
Password in clear-text?
A pretty bad idea, you should always hash the password with SHA algorithm, this tutorial show you how – Spring Security password hashing example.
4. Custom Login Form
A custom login form to match above (step 3) Spring Security congratulation. It should be self-explanatory.
login.jsp
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.error {
padding: 15px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
border: 1px solid transparent;
border-radius: 4px;
color: #a94442;
background-color: #f2dede;
border-color: #ebccd1;
}
.msg {
padding: 15px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
border: 1px solid transparent;
border-radius: 4px;
color: #31708f;
background-color: #d9edf7;
border-color: #bce8f1;
}
#login-box {
width: 300px;
padding: 20px;
margin: 100px auto;
background: #fff;
-webkit-border-radius: 2px;
-moz-border-radius: 2px;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body onload='document.loginForm.username.focus();'>
<h1>Spring Security Custom Login Form (XML)</h1>
<div id="login-box">
<h2>Login with Username and Password</h2>
<c:if test="${not empty error}">
<div class="error">${error}</div>
</c:if>
<c:if test="${not empty msg}">
<div class="msg">${msg}</div>
</c:if>
<form name='loginForm'
action="<c:url value='j_spring_security_check' />" method='POST'>
<table>
<tr>
<td>User:</td>
<td><input type='text' name='username' value=''></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password:</td>
<td><input type='password' name='password' /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan='2'><input name="submit" type="submit"
value="submit" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="${_csrf.parameterName}"
value="${_csrf.token}" />
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
And the other two JSP pages, btw admin.jsp
is password protected by Spring Security.
hello.jsp
<%@page session="false"%>
<html>
<body>
<h1>Title : ${title}</h1>
<h1>Message : ${message}</h1>
</body>
</html>
admin.jsp
+ logout
<%@taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
<%@page session="true"%>
<html>
<body>
<h1>Title : ${title}</h1>
<h1>Message : ${message}</h1>
<c:url value="/j_spring_security_logout" var="logoutUrl" />
<!-- csrt for log out-->
<form action="${logoutUrl}" method="post" id="logoutForm">
<input type="hidden"
name="${_csrf.parameterName}"
value="${_csrf.token}" />
</form>
<script>
function formSubmit() {
document.getElementById("logoutForm").submit();
}
</script>
<c:if test="${pageContext.request.userPrincipal.name != null}">
<h2>
Welcome : ${pageContext.request.userPrincipal.name} | <a
href="javascript:formSubmit()"> Logout</a>
</h2>
</c:if>
</body>
</html>
5. Spring MVC Controller
A simple controller.
HelloController.java
package com.mkyong.web.controller;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
@Controller
public class HelloController {
@RequestMapping(value = { "/", "/welcome**" }, method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView welcomePage() {
ModelAndView model = new ModelAndView();
model.addObject("title", "Spring Security Custom Login Form");
model.addObject("message", "This is welcome page!");
model.setViewName("hello");
return model;
}
@RequestMapping(value = "/admin**", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView adminPage() {
ModelAndView model = new ModelAndView();
model.addObject("title", "Spring Security Custom Login Form");
model.addObject("message", "This is protected page!");
model.setViewName("admin");
return model;
}
//Spring Security see this :
@RequestMapping(value = "/login", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView login(
@RequestParam(value = "error", required = false) String error,
@RequestParam(value = "logout", required = false) String logout) {
ModelAndView model = new ModelAndView();
if (error != null) {
model.addObject("error", "Invalid username and password!");
}
if (logout != null) {
model.addObject("msg", "You've been logged out successfully.");
}
model.setViewName("login");
return model;
}
}