Spring Security Request Matcher not working to permit allowed path-CodePudding

I am following an older tutorial to implement Spring Security. Unfortunately, antmatchers is not recogzied as a method in my configuration class, so after doing some research, I believe requestMatchers method is its equivalent. However, the path ("/") remains blocked without authentication. I would like to permit this.

Here is my controller:

package com.quadri.springsecurity.controllers;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

import com.quadri.springsecurity.models.Student;

@RestController
@RequestMapping("api/v1/students")
public class StudentController {

    private static final List<Student> STUDENTS = Arrays.asList(
        new Student(1, "James Bond"),
        new Student(2, "Maria Jones"),
        new Student(3, "Anna Smith")
    );

   

    @GetMapping(path = "{studentId}")
    public Student getStudent(@PathVariable("studentId") Integer studentId) {
        return STUDENTS.stream()
        .filter(student -> studentId.equals(student.getStudentId()))
        .findFirst()
        .orElseThrow(() -> new IllegalStateException("Student "   studentId   " does not exist!"));
    }
    
}

Here is my config file:

package com.quadri.springsecurity.security;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.builders.HttpSecurity;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.EnableWebSecurity;
import org.springframework.security.web.SecurityFilterChain;

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
public class ApplicationSecurityConfig {

    @Bean
    public SecurityFilterChain filterChain(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http
        .authorizeHttpRequests()
        .requestMatchers( "resources/**", "/").permitAll()
        .anyRequest()
        .authenticated()
        .and()
        .httpBasic();
        

        return http.build();
    }
  
}

In my resources/static folder I have created a simple html page (index.html) displaying hello world. In the tutorial the RequestMapping wasn't changed, however they used .antMatcher in the config file which is not a recognized method in Spring Security at least the version I am using. Here is my pom for reference:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.1</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.quadri</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-security</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>spring-security</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
    <properties>
        <java.version>17</java.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
            <optional>true</optional>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
            <optional>true</optional>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <excludes>
                        <exclude>
                            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
                            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
                        </exclude>
                    </excludes>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

What is the proper way to make sure the home or "/" URL is permitted?

CodePudding user response：

You should allow index.html in the HttpSecurity request matchers as going to / is doing an auto-redirect to index.html and there is no permit rule defined for index.html giving an auth prompt. Below setting should work -

@Bean
public SecurityFilterChain filterChain(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {

http
    .authorizeHttpRequests()
    .requestMatchers( "/resources/**", "/", "/index.html").permitAll()
    .anyRequest()
    .authenticated()
    .and()
    .httpBasic();

    return http.build();
}