title: How to handle CSRF protection with Spring RESTful web services?
body: <p>I have a Spring web application with CSRF protection enabled. I am able to access the RESTful service via AJAX calls, but when I am accessing the service with other applications like httpurlconnection, I get a 401 error (CSRF token null).</p>
  
  <p>I understand that to access the RESTful service I need to pass a token in the request header, but how can I get the CSRF token?</p>