How to implement HTTPS for desired pages in application?

Question

We are trying to implement HTTPS for some pages in our application.So,we changed tomcat server.xml to make HTTPS calls as follows:

<Connector
           port="8080"
           protocol="HTTP/1.1"
           connectionTimeout="20000"
           redirectPort="8443"
           acceptCount="100"
           maxKeepAliveRequests="15"
           SSLEnabled="true"
           scheme="https"
           secure="true"
     clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"
     keystoreFile="/webapps/test.bin"
           keystorePass="test"/>

In application web.xml :

<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>securedapp</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<user-data-constraint>
<transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee>
</user-data-constraint>
</security-constraint>

So,HTTPS is applying for all pages.How to restrict HTTPS for desired pages.

Help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Spring Security Interceptor have a parameter requires-channel. Set this parameter to https to enforce it for the url patterns that match the interceptor.

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.0.4.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">

   <security:http>
       <security:intercept-url pattern="/login" access="permitAll"
           requires-channel="https"/>
   </security:http> 

</bean>