In this tutorial, we will discuss about adding spring security logout functionality in Spring Security Application.
Before go ahead , you must aware of Spring Security login. Click here if you are not well aware of it.
1. Adding the following line of code to the welcome.jsp page for the logout link.
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>WELCOME TO SECURE AREA</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Message : ${message}</h1>
<h1>Author : ${author}</h1>
<a href='<c:url value="/j_spring_security_logout" />' > Logout</a>
</body>
</html>
2. In the Spring Security configuration XML file, add the <logout logout-success-url=”/logout” /> under the <http> tag as follows
sdnext-security.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:>
All files are same as the previous example for login page as following derctory structure.
Running the example
Export the example as war and deploy it Tomcat 7 server. While browsing the project you will get the following screen for loging:
Access URL "http://localhost:8080/sdnext/index", Spring will redirect to your custom login form.
URL : http://localhost:8080/sdnext/login
If username/password is correct, authentication success, display requested page.
URL : http://localhost:8080/sdnext/index
If username/password is correct, authentication success, display requested page.
on requested page click on Logout link.
URL : http://localhost:8080/sdnext/logout
Download Source Code-
SpringSecurityLogoutExample.zip
References-
https://www.dineshonjava.com/spring-security-form-based-login-example/
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