Disable Spring Security for OPTIONS Http Method

If you’re using an annotation based security config file (@EnableWebSecurity & @Configuration) you can do something like the following in the configure() method to allow for the OPTION requests to be permitted by Spring Security without authentication for a given path:

@Override
protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception
{
     http
    .csrf().disable()
    .authorizeRequests()
      .antMatchers(HttpMethod.OPTIONS,"/path/to/allow").permitAll()//allow CORS option calls
      .antMatchers("/resources/**").permitAll()
      .anyRequest().authenticated()
    .and()
    .formLogin()
    .and()
    .httpBasic();
}