This tells the AuthenticationFilter to not handle OPTIONS requests. That is why you're bypassing the authentication.
Or I'm missing something ?
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As we discussed in
PLINK-157, we have added a configuration option to the AuthenticationFilter to set which methods should be protected.Looking at your branch, the filter in your web.xml is configured with this init-param:
<init-param>
<param-name>unprotectedMethods</param-name>
<param-value>OPTIONS</param-value>
</init-param>
This tells the AuthenticationFilter to not handle OPTIONS requests. That is why you're bypassing the authentication.
Or I'm missing something ?