beginnerSpring Security Architecture: The Filter Chain & Internal Flow

Can a request pass through multiple SecurityFilterChain beans?

No — FilterChainProxy picks exactly ONE matching SecurityFilterChain (based on securityMatcher) for a given request and runs only that chain. If you need different rules for /api/** versus /admin/**, you configure two separate SecurityFilterChain beans with different @Order values and matchers, not one chain that both apply to.

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