Spring Security conditional default-target-url

Question

I\'ve noticed that there are a couple of questions asking about this topic. I looked through them and I was unable to apply them to my specific Spring setup. I would like to con

Answer 1

A more appropriate approach IMO is to create a class which extends SimpleUrlAuthenticationSuccessHandler, and then override its determineTargetUrl method. From the docs:

Builds the target URL according to the logic defined in the main class Javadoc.

...which sounds a little confusing, but basically you write whatever logic you need to determine the target URL, then just return it as a String.