Spring logout access denied

Question

I'm using Spring Security, trying to set up basic login\logout functionality. Login works ok, I store users in MySQL DB, and I'm able to log in, but I have problem with logging out. On home page I made a logout link, looking like this, but when I click it I get 403 Access denied, and user doesn't get logged out:

<a href="<c:url value="j_spring_security_logout" />" > Logout</a>

And here is my security-context.xml:

<security:authentication-manager>
    <security:authentication-provider>
        <security:jdbc-user-service data-source-ref="dataSource" />
    </security:authentication-provider>
</security:authentication-manager>
<security:http use-expressions="true">
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/static/**" access="permitAll" />
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/loggedout" access="permitAll" />
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/login" access="permitAll" />
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/createoffer" access="isAuthenticated()" />
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/docreate" access="isAuthenticated()" />
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/offercreated" access="isAuthenticated()" />
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/newaccount" access="permitAll" />
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/createaccount" access="permitAll" />
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/accountcreated" access="permitAll" />
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/" access="permitAll" />
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/offers" access="permitAll" />
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/**" access="denyAll" />

    <security:logout logout-success-url="/loggedout"/>
    <security:form-login login-page="/login"
        authentication-failure-url="/login?error=true" />

</security:http>

And /loggedout is mapped to basic .jsp page, just saying "You have logged out."

Also, when I click logout link when I'm not logged in, it takes me to the login page.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I just added the logout-url="/j_spring_security_logout"

to the security:logout and it is working as it should now.. But I thought it would work even without this parameter if I use /j_spring_security_logout as logout link.