Improve regex support for URL path matching

Closes gh-28815

spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/AntPathMatcher.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2021 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2022 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -701,8 +701,8 @@ public class AntPathMatcher implements PathMatcher {
 			else {
 				this.exactMatch = false;
 				patternBuilder.append(quote(pattern, end, pattern.length()));
-				this.pattern = (this.caseSensitive ? Pattern.compile(patternBuilder.toString()) :
-						Pattern.compile(patternBuilder.toString(), Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE));
+				this.pattern = Pattern.compile(patternBuilder.toString(),
+						Pattern.DOTALL | (this.caseSensitive ? 0 : Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE));
 			}
 		}
 

spring-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/util/AntPathMatcherTests.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2020 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2022 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ class AntPathMatcherTests {
 
 		assertThat(pathMatcher.match("/{bla}.*", "/testing.html")).isTrue();
 		assertThat(pathMatcher.match("/{bla}", "//x\ny")).isTrue();
+		assertThat(pathMatcher.match("/{var:.*}", "/x\ny")).isTrue();
 	}
 
 	@Test

spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/pattern/CaptureVariablePathElement.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2021 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2022 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -59,15 +59,9 @@ class CaptureVariablePathElement extends PathElement {
 		}
 		else {
 			this.variableName = new String(captureDescriptor, 1, colon - 1);
-			if (caseSensitive) {
-				this.constraintPattern = Pattern.compile(
-						new String(captureDescriptor, colon + 1, captureDescriptor.length - colon - 2));
-			}
-			else {
-				this.constraintPattern = Pattern.compile(
-						new String(captureDescriptor, colon + 1, captureDescriptor.length - colon - 2),
-						Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
-			}
+			this.constraintPattern = Pattern.compile(
+					new String(captureDescriptor, colon + 1, captureDescriptor.length - colon - 2),
+					Pattern.DOTALL | (caseSensitive ? 0 : Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE));
 		}
 	}
 

spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/pattern/RegexPathElement.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2021 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2022 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -108,12 +108,8 @@ class RegexPathElement extends PathElement {
 		}
 
 		patternBuilder.append(quote(text, end, text.length()));
-		if (this.caseSensitive) {
-			return Pattern.compile(patternBuilder.toString());
-		}
-		else {
-			return Pattern.compile(patternBuilder.toString(), Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
-		}
+		return Pattern.compile(patternBuilder.toString(),
+				Pattern.DOTALL | (this.caseSensitive ? 0 : Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE));
 	}
 
 	public List<String> getVariableNames() {

spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/util/pattern/PathPatternTests.java

@@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ public class PathPatternTests {
 		checkCapture("{var:f o}","f%20o","var","f o"); // constraint is expressed in non encoded form
 		checkCapture("{var:f.o}","f%20o","var","f o");
 		checkCapture("{var:f\\|o}","f%7co","var","f|o");
+		checkCapture("{var:.*}","x\ny","var","x\ny");
 	}
 
 	@Test
@@ -319,6 +320,8 @@ public class PathPatternTests {
 		checkCapture("/{var1}_ _{var2}","/f%20o_%20_f%7co","var1","f o","var2","f|o");
 		checkCapture("/{var1}_ _{var2:f\\|o}","/f%20o_%20_f%7co","var1","f o","var2","f|o");
 		checkCapture("/{var1:f o}_ _{var2:f\\|o}","/f%20o_%20_f%7co","var1","f o","var2","f|o");
+		checkCapture("/{var1:f o}_ _{var2:f\\|o}","/f%20o_%20_f%7co","var1","f o","var2","f|o");
+		checkCapture("/{var1}_{var2}","/f\noo_foo","var1","f\noo","var2","foo");
 	}
 
 	@Test

src/docs/asciidoc/web/webmvc.adoc

@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ See <<mvc-config-interceptors>> in the section on MVC configuration for examples
 configure interceptors. You can also register them directly by using setters on individual
 `HandlerMapping` implementations.
 
-Note that `postHandle` is less useful with `@ResponseBody` and `ResponseEntity` methods for
+`postHandle` method is less useful with `@ResponseBody` and `ResponseEntity` methods for
 which the response is written and committed within the `HandlerAdapter` and before
 `postHandle`. That means it is too late to make any changes to the response, such as adding
 an extra header. For such scenarios, you can implement `ResponseBodyAdvice` and either
@@ -657,6 +657,7 @@ declare it as an <<mvc-ann-controller-advice>> bean or configure it directly on
 
 
 
+
 [[mvc-exceptionhandlers]]
 === Exceptions
 [.small]#<<web-reactive.adoc#webflux-dispatcher-exceptions, WebFlux>>#
@@ -5362,7 +5363,6 @@ the following example shows:
 		public void addInterceptors(InterceptorRegistry registry) {
 			registry.addInterceptor(new LocaleChangeInterceptor());
 			registry.addInterceptor(new ThemeChangeInterceptor()).addPathPatterns("/**").excludePathPatterns("/admin/**");
-			registry.addInterceptor(new SecurityInterceptor()).addPathPatterns("/secure/*");
 		}
 	}
 ----
@@ -5376,7 +5376,6 @@ the following example shows:
 		override fun addInterceptors(registry: InterceptorRegistry) {
 			registry.addInterceptor(LocaleChangeInterceptor())
 			registry.addInterceptor(ThemeChangeInterceptor()).addPathPatterns("/**").excludePathPatterns("/admin/**")
-			registry.addInterceptor(SecurityInterceptor()).addPathPatterns("/secure/*")
 		}
 	}
 ----
@@ -5392,13 +5391,19 @@ The following example shows how to achieve the same configuration in XML:
 			<mvc:exclude-mapping path="/admin/**"/>
 			<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.theme.ThemeChangeInterceptor"/>
 		</mvc:interceptor>
-		<mvc:interceptor>
-			<mvc:mapping path="/secure/*"/>
-			<bean class="org.example.SecurityInterceptor"/>
-		</mvc:interceptor>
 	</mvc:interceptors>
 ----
 
+NOTE: Mapped interceptors are not ideally suited as a security layer due to the potential
+for a mismatch with annotated controller path matching, which can also match trailing
+slashes and path extensions transparently, along with other path matching options. Many
+of these options have been deprecated but the potential for a mismatch remains.
+Generally, we recommend using Spring Security which includes a dedicated
+https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/servlet/integrations/mvc.html#mvc-requestmatcher[MvcRequestMatcher]
+to align with Spring MVC path matching and also has a security firewall that blocks many
+unwanted characters in URL paths.
+
+
 
 
 [[mvc-config-content-negotiation]]