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HTTP
All HTTP based communication, including static resources, should be protected using TLS.
As a framework, Spring Security does not handle HTTP connections and thus does not provide support for HTTPS directly. However, it does provide a number of features that help with HTTPS usage.
Strict Transport Security
Spring Security provides support for Strict Transport Security and enables it by default.
Proxy Server Configuration
When using a proxy server it is important to ensure that you have configured your application properly. For example, many applications will have a load balancer that responds to request for example.com/ by forwarding the request to an application server at 192.168.1:8080. Without proper configuration, the application server will not know that the load balancer exists and treat the request as though 192.168.1:8080 was requested by the client.
To fix this you can use RFC 7239 to specify that a load balancer is being used. To make the application aware of this, you need to either configure your application server aware of the X-Forwarded headers. For example Tomcat uses the RemoteIpValve and Jetty uses ForwardedRequestCustomizer. Alternatively, Spring users can leverage ForwardedHeaderFilter.
Spring Boot users may use the server.use-forward-headers property to configure the application.
See the Spring Boot documentation for further details.
