HTTP Status 500 - Filter execution threw an exception - doFilter and invokeDelegate repeated

Question

I\'m using Spring-MVC (4.2.5) and Spring-Security (4.1.3) to develop a web application. I begin to have problems when I tried to incorporate the latter in my mvc project.

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Answer 1

After double-checking all the configuration file, after reading the documentation, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing wrong. I simply solved downgrading from version 4.1.3 to 4.0.3

Answer 2

please change the url pattern in web xml. That should work.

<filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/user/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>