NIFI-13558 Configure Web Security to ignore unauthenticated requests

[exceptionfactory]

Summary

NIFI-13558 Updates the framework WebSecurityConfiguration to ignore requests that do not require authentication.

The previous approach applied Spring Security filter processing to all requests, but permitted access without authentication to specific paths required for user interface configuration. This approach works for the majority of situations where the user interface makes initial requests without authentication. For certain edge cases, the client browser will continue to send a session cookie with an application bearer token that may be expired. In this situation, unauthenticated paths should continue to return the same results.

The implementation changes make use of the securityMatchers method to specify the paths that the filter chain evaluates. The configuration updates apply filter evaluation to all requests, except those listed as unfiltered paths.

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[mcgilman]

Will review...

[mcgilman]

Thanks @exceptionfactory! I am verified the desired behavior for the endpoints which should work in an unauthenticated context.