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Debug Past an HTTP 403 Without Breaking Spring Security

calendar_today September 8, 2026 person Andrey Belyaev domain jetbrains

You set a breakpoint inside a Spring MVC controller, or a service, send the request to an HTTP endpoint, and nothing happens. The response is back – and it is a 403 (or 401, or a redirect to a login page). At that point, the bug you were trying to catch is no longer the […]

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