spring-projects / spring-projects/spring-security

Add support for RFC7807-style error responses

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Description

Expected Behavior

There should be an option to enable RFC7807-style ProblemDetail-responses when using Spring Security 6.

Current Behavior

There is currently no option to enable this.

Context

For the last three years, our company have used RFC7807 problem responses in our Spring Applications, first through zalando problem and after Spring 6 / Spring Boot 3 we have moved to the built in ProblemDetails-objects provided with Spring MVC.

We are currently using a custom built security filter for authenticating user tokens, but we wish to move to Spring Security. However we cannot find any way of enabling ProblemDetails in error-responses (For example when returning a 401) without completely writing this ourselves. Should this maybe be implemented as an option in a coming release?

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Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by locating Spring Security's authentication error-response handling and compare it with Spring MVC's built-in ProblemDetail support; done means an option can produce RFC7807-style responses for authentication errors such as 401 without requiring a custom security filter.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java, spring
Domain
backend, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
52/100

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