How do I return a 403 Forbidden in Spring MVC?

java spring http-status-code-403 httpforbiddenhandler
Will Harris picture Will Harris · Sep 5, 2008 · Viewed 55.9k times · Source

I want my controller to return the right HTTP response code when the user lacks permission to view a particular page.

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Chris Ritchie picture Chris Ritchie · Jul 19, 2016

You can also just throw

org.springframework.security.access.AccessDeniedException("403 returned");

This returns a 403 in the response header.

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