I want to enable the use of \"ROLE_ANONYMOUS\" to allow anonymous access to some urls in my app. And I used the below configuration.
@Overr
This should solve your issue.
@Override
protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
http
...
.formLogin().loginPage("/login").permitAll()
...
But if you prefer not to use permitAll but to stick to anonymous roled user (it would be the same effect on both situation but yet if that's wht you prefer) then try this in the controller.
@Secured("ROLE_ANONYMOUS")
@RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.GET)
public String get(){
...