Are you sure the ROLE_ANONYMOUS is automatically given to the user? Perhaps this gives you some clue?
http://static.springframework.org/spring-security/site/reference/html/anonymous.html Martijn On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 15:43 -0700, kace wrote: > I tried that on the default welcome page which only shows / and it didnt work > there but if I clicked on a link from that page and I employed an > intercept-url on that ie /page2 the following worked > > <security:intercept-url pattern="/page2*" access="ROLE_ADMIN"/> > > however, having this > > <security:intercept-url pattern="/page2*" access="ROLE_ANONYMOUS"/> > > resulted in the login page being shown too. But having this > > <security:intercept-url pattern="/page2*.*" access="ROLE_ANONYMOUS"/> > > did work. > > Then I tried > > <security:intercept-url pattern="/page2*.*" access="ROLE_ADMIN"/> > > and it didnt work. > > Not sure what is going on here or what I am doing wrong. Mess about with it > some more I guess.. > > ..kace > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]