Thanks Les, this works a treat. I had used WebUtils to obtain the request url and returned that as a redirect to Spring minus the context root but this is much cleaner.. I had never had a reason to return null in a Spring controller and didn’t even know you could so double points for the answer :)
Thanks, Marcus. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Les Hazlewood Sent: 12 April 2012 06:18 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Saved Request using PassThruAuthenticationFilter and Spring Controller Hi Marcus, Use the following from within your Spring MVC controller: import org.apache.shiro.web.util.WebUtils; ... String fallbackUrl = "/path/to/go/to/incase/there/is/no/saved/request"; WebUtils.redirectToSavedRequest(request, response, fallbackUrl); return null; //tell Spring MVC not to render a view, we're redirecting explicitly HTH, -- Les Hazlewood CTO, Stormpath | http://www.stormpath.com | 888.391.5282 twitter: @lhazlewood | http://twitter.com/lhazlewood blog: http://leshazlewood.com stormpath blog: http://www.stormpath.com/blog/ On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Marcus Bond <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I have a Spring MVC web application configured such that in web.xml my > shiroFilter is a org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy > and the shiroFilter bean is > org.apache.shiro.spring.web.ShiroFilterFactoryBean. > I use a shiro filter called authc which is a > org.apache.shiro.web.filter.authc.PassThruAuthenticationFilter > configured via the factory bean to have loginUrl of /login which is a > Spring Controller. > > > > What this means in English is that I have configured Shiro to delegate > login to a Spring Controller and all is working fine. However, I now > need to add the capability to remember a requested URL and redirect to > that if the user first had to authenticate. Shiro already supports > this and the PassThruAuthenticationFilter saves the request but what I > want to know is how I can make use of the Shiro functionality to > easily redirect the user to their originally requested URL upon a > successful login from within the code of my controller. > > > > Cheers, > > Marcus. > >
