Property 'defaultTargetUrl' threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: defaultTarget must start with '/' or with 'http(s)'

This is happened to be spring configuration related issue.

Make sure spring-security.xml is correct in all ways.
I found reason behind is my default-target-url was incorrect.
It was without / i.e. default-target-url="test" it should be default-target-url="/test".

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