diff --git a/src/docbkx/supporting-infrastructure.xml b/src/docbkx/supporting-infrastructure.xml
index 40a777db7b..0ba8fd4024 100644
--- a/src/docbkx/supporting-infrastructure.xml
+++ b/src/docbkx/supporting-infrastructure.xml
@@ -165,25 +165,11 @@
FilterSecurityInterceptor is declared. Both regular
expressions and Ant Paths are supported, and the most specific URIs
appear first. At runtime the FilterChainProxy will
- locate the first URI pattern that matches the current web request.
- Each of the corresponding configuration attributes represent the name
- of a bean defined in the application context. The filters will then be
- invoked in the order they are specified, with standard
- FilterChain behaviour being respected (a
- Filter can elect not to proceed with the chain if
- it wishes to end processing).
-
- As you can see, FilterChainProxy requires the
- duplication of filter names for different request patterns (in the
- above example, exceptionTranslationFilter and
- filterSecurityInterceptor are duplicated). This
- design decision was made to enable FilterChainProxy
- to specify different Filter invocation orders for
- different URI patterns, and also to improve both the expressiveness
- (in terms of regular expressions, Ant Paths, and any custom
- FilterInvocationDefinitionSource implementations)
- and clarity of which Filters should be
- invoked.
+ locate the first URI pattern that matches the current web request and the list
+ of filter beans specified by the filters attribute
+ will be applied to that request. The filters will be invoked in the order
+ they are defined, so you have complete control over the filter chain
+ which is applied to a particular URL.
You may have noticed we have declared two
HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilters in the filter
@@ -215,17 +201,11 @@
any servlet container lifecycle invocations are not delegated through
to DelegatingFilterProxy.
- In the same way that you can use the attribute filters = "none"
- when using namespace configuration,
- you can omit a URI pattern from the filter chain by using
- the token #NONE# on the right-hand side of the
- <URI Pattern> = <Filter Chain>
- expression. For example, using the example above, if you wanted to
- exclude the /webservices location completely, you
- would modify the corresponding line in the bean declaration to be
-
-/webServices/**=#NONE#
- Note that anything matching this path will then have
+ You can use the attribute filters = "none"
+ in the same way that you do when using namespace configuration
+ to build the FilterChainProxy. This will omit the
+ request pattern from the security filter chain entirely.
+ Note that anything matching this path will then have
no authentication or authorization services applied and will be freely
accessible.