diff --git a/acl/pom.xml b/acl/pom.xml
index 61b1ae5c44..3d9d787db0 100644
--- a/acl/pom.xml
+++ b/acl/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-acl</artifactId>
diff --git a/acl/src/test/resources/jdbcMutableAclServiceTests-context.xml b/acl/src/test/resources/jdbcMutableAclServiceTests-context.xml
index 4c1802536a..9234847bd8 100644
--- a/acl/src/test/resources/jdbcMutableAclServiceTests-context.xml
+++ b/acl/src/test/resources/jdbcMutableAclServiceTests-context.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "https://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
 
 <!--
   - Application context containing business beans.
diff --git a/aspects/pom.xml b/aspects/pom.xml
index c9d686ef8d..f4d3a87e82 100644
--- a/aspects/pom.xml
+++ b/aspects/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-aspects</artifactId>
diff --git a/cas/pom.xml b/cas/pom.xml
index 6d5b04034e..0fd4156fc5 100644
--- a/cas/pom.xml
+++ b/cas/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-cas</artifactId>
diff --git a/cas/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/cas/web/authentication/defaultserviceauthenticationdetails-explicit.xml b/cas/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/cas/web/authentication/defaultserviceauthenticationdetails-explicit.xml
index 518a37a245..c7d5346179 100644
--- a/cas/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/cas/web/authentication/defaultserviceauthenticationdetails-explicit.xml
+++ b/cas/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/cas/web/authentication/defaultserviceauthenticationdetails-explicit.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	   xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
-	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd">
+	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop https://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="serviceProperties"
 		  class="org.springframework.security.cas.ServiceProperties">
diff --git a/cas/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/cas/web/authentication/defaultserviceauthenticationdetails-passivity.xml b/cas/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/cas/web/authentication/defaultserviceauthenticationdetails-passivity.xml
index 87fb6a4a1b..0fe950ff2b 100644
--- a/cas/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/cas/web/authentication/defaultserviceauthenticationdetails-passivity.xml
+++ b/cas/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/cas/web/authentication/defaultserviceauthenticationdetails-passivity.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	   xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
-	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd">
+	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop https://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="serviceProperties"
 		  class="org.springframework.security.cas.ServiceProperties">
diff --git a/config/pom.xml b/config/pom.xml
index c9b445fc42..2690e5e820 100644
--- a/config/pom.xml
+++ b/config/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
diff --git a/config/src/main/resources/org/springframework/security/config/catalog.xml b/config/src/main/resources/org/springframework/security/config/catalog.xml
index b0322f0568..6779fcbfe4 100644
--- a/config/src/main/resources/org/springframework/security/config/catalog.xml
+++ b/config/src/main/resources/org/springframework/security/config/catalog.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN" "https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd">
 <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog">
-	<system systemId="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.xsd" uri="spring-security-2.0.xsd"/>
+	<system systemId="https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.xsd" uri="spring-security-2.0.xsd"/>
 </catalog>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/annotation/configuration/AutowireBeanFactoryObjectPostProcessorTests-aopconfig.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/annotation/configuration/AutowireBeanFactoryObjectPostProcessorTests-aopconfig.xml
index a36e2f41d3..d8ee6b4ffb 100644
--- a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/annotation/configuration/AutowireBeanFactoryObjectPostProcessorTests-aopconfig.xml
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/annotation/configuration/AutowireBeanFactoryObjectPostProcessorTests-aopconfig.xml
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 	xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
 	xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
 	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.2.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop https://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.2.xsd">
 
 	<context:annotation-config/>
 
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/core/GrantedAuthorityDefaultsXmlTests-context.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/core/GrantedAuthorityDefaultsXmlTests-context.xml
index 82f3a4ad55..93cbbb46fb 100755
--- a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/core/GrantedAuthorityDefaultsXmlTests-context.xml
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/core/GrantedAuthorityDefaultsXmlTests-context.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:c="http://www.springframework.org/schema/c"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<http use-expressions="true">
 		<intercept-url access="hasRole('USER')" pattern="/**" />
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/CsrfBeanDefinitionParserTests-RegisterDataValueProcessorOnyIfNotRegistered.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/CsrfBeanDefinitionParserTests-RegisterDataValueProcessorOnyIfNotRegistered.xml
index 333e9d11ee..e968b744a0 100644
--- a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/CsrfBeanDefinitionParserTests-RegisterDataValueProcessorOnyIfNotRegistered.xml
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/CsrfBeanDefinitionParserTests-RegisterDataValueProcessorOnyIfNotRegistered.xml
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 	   xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
 	   xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	   xsi:schemaLocation="
-http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
-http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
-http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
-http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.1.xsd
-http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
+http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+http://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
+http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx https://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
+http://www.springframework.org/schema/util https://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.1.xsd
+http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
 ">
 
 	<security:http pattern="/foo/**">
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/HttpInterceptUrlTests-interceptUrlWhenRequestMatcherRefThenWorks.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/HttpInterceptUrlTests-interceptUrlWhenRequestMatcherRefThenWorks.xml
index bda560e8be..aa34e796b1 100644
--- a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/HttpInterceptUrlTests-interceptUrlWhenRequestMatcherRefThenWorks.xml
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/HttpInterceptUrlTests-interceptUrlWhenRequestMatcherRefThenWorks.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:c="http://www.springframework.org/schema/c"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
 
 	<http>
 		<http-basic/>
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method-security.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method-security.xml
index ff617d2299..5a62445638 100644
--- a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method-security.xml
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method-security.xml
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 	xmlns:b="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx https://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<tx:annotation-driven />
 
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/PreAuthorizeTests-context.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/PreAuthorizeTests-context.xml
index 9e99983824..8f8b62bac8 100644
--- a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/PreAuthorizeTests-context.xml
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/PreAuthorizeTests-context.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:c="http://www.springframework.org/schema/c"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
 
 	<global-method-security pre-post-annotations="enabled"/>
 
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/SecuredTests-context.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/SecuredTests-context.xml
index 88cce6bd1c..1b7341fee4 100644
--- a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/SecuredTests-context.xml
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/SecuredTests-context.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:c="http://www.springframework.org/schema/c"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
 
 	<global-method-security secured-annotations="enabled"/>
 
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/sec2136/sec2136.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/sec2136/sec2136.xml
index 103ab944c0..67eb27407a 100644
--- a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/sec2136/sec2136.xml
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/sec2136/sec2136.xml
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
 	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
 	xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
 	xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-3.1.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc https://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-3.1.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa https://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd">
 
 	<context:annotation-config />
 
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/sec2499/child.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/sec2499/child.xml
index efca284350..b90ccc0f63 100644
--- a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/sec2499/child.xml
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/sec2499/child.xml
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 <b:beans xmlns:b="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
 
 	<global-method-security pre-post-annotations="enabled">
 		<expression-handler ref="expressionHandler"/>
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/sec2499/parent.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/sec2499/parent.xml
index b6c7e74ea9..29f496f02a 100644
--- a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/sec2499/parent.xml
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/method/sec2499/parent.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="expressionHandler"
 		class="org.springframework.security.access.expression.method.DefaultMethodSecurityExpressionHandler"/>
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/util/filtertest-valid.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/util/filtertest-valid.xml
index 49de0f1b48..5885916482 100644
--- a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/util/filtertest-valid.xml
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/util/filtertest-valid.xml
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@
 	xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xsi:schemaLocation="
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util https://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="mockFilter" class="org.springframework.security.web.servletapi.SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter"/>
 
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 9d42234769..b07f6e6a81 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId>
diff --git a/core/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/authentication/jaas/DefaultJaasAuthenticationProviderTests.xml b/core/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/authentication/jaas/DefaultJaasAuthenticationProviderTests.xml
index 2fa38a2189..10aa7f6c87 100644
--- a/core/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/authentication/jaas/DefaultJaasAuthenticationProviderTests.xml
+++ b/core/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/authentication/jaas/DefaultJaasAuthenticationProviderTests.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util https://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="jaasAuthProvider"
 		class="org.springframework.security.authentication.jaas.DefaultJaasAuthenticationProvider">
diff --git a/core/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/authentication/jaas/JaasAuthenticationProviderTests.xml b/core/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/authentication/jaas/JaasAuthenticationProviderTests.xml
index d33b1a2380..53e4d6ecfa 100644
--- a/core/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/authentication/jaas/JaasAuthenticationProviderTests.xml
+++ b/core/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/authentication/jaas/JaasAuthenticationProviderTests.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "https://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
 
 
 <beans>
diff --git a/crypto/pom.xml b/crypto/pom.xml
index d31a1e5656..a862c50b98 100644
--- a/crypto/pom.xml
+++ b/crypto/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-crypto</artifactId>
diff --git a/data/pom.xml b/data/pom.xml
index 16d2b4bb96..849abf0777 100644
--- a/data/pom.xml
+++ b/data/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-data</artifactId>
diff --git a/docs/articles/src/docbook/codebase-structure.xml b/docs/articles/src/docbook/codebase-structure.xml
index 99b9ad0317..bd2e06999c 100644
--- a/docs/articles/src/docbook/codebase-structure.xml
+++ b/docs/articles/src/docbook/codebase-structure.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<?oxygen RNGSchema="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/5.0/rng/docbook.rng" type="xml"?>
+<?oxygen RNGSchema="https://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/5.0/rng/docbook.rng" type="xml"?>
 <article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
 	version="5.0">
 	<info>
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 			Structure101 tool<footnote>
 				<para>Structure101 is an excellent tool for analyzing your own code or for
 					understanding someone else's. It is developed by <link
-						xlink:href="http://www.headwaysoftware.com">Headway Software</link>. </para>
+						xlink:href="https://www.headwaysoftware.com">Headway Software</link>. </para>
 			</footnote>. You don't have to be an expert in code structure to realise that there is a
 			bit of a problem here. There are a lot of circular references and no clear overall
 			dependency structure within the packages. There are also some issues with packages being
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@
 					the topic where he shares some of the insights gained from maintaining the
 					Spring Framework through multiple versions. You can find him discussing the
 					topic in an online interview <link
-						xlink:href="http://www.se-radio.net/transcript-82-organization-large-code-bases-juergen-hoeller"
+						xlink:href="https://www.se-radio.net/transcript-82-organization-large-code-bases-juergen-hoeller"
 						>transcript</link> and an <link
-						xlink:href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/code-organization-large-projects"
+						xlink:href="https://www.infoq.com/presentations/code-organization-large-projects"
 						>InfoQ video</link>. </para>
 			</footnote>. This fragility in the code structure would likely have caused a maintenance
 			overhead as Spring Security evolved, so the decision was made to restructure the code
diff --git a/etc/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml b/etc/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
index fe25bb4525..09e9388d47 100644
--- a/etc/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
+++ b/etc/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
-		"http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
+		"https://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
 <module name="Checker">
 	<!-- Suppressions -->
 	<module name="SuppressionFilter">
diff --git a/etc/checkstyle/suppressions.xml b/etc/checkstyle/suppressions.xml
index a7d3052a83..297f0624c9 100644
--- a/etc/checkstyle/suppressions.xml
+++ b/etc/checkstyle/suppressions.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <!DOCTYPE suppressions PUBLIC "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.1//EN"
-		"http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_1.dtd">
+		"https://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_1.dtd">
 <suppressions>
 	<suppress files=".+Application\.java" checks="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
 	<suppress files=".+Configuration\.java" checks="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
diff --git a/itest/context/pom.xml b/itest/context/pom.xml
index c20b562628..6d78bae8c9 100644
--- a/itest/context/pom.xml
+++ b/itest/context/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>itest-context</artifactId>
diff --git a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/filter-chain-performance-app-context.xml b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/filter-chain-performance-app-context.xml
index eadd0dbaa3..7b6ac0c656 100644
--- a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/filter-chain-performance-app-context.xml
+++ b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/filter-chain-performance-app-context.xml
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:sec="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="fcpMinimalStack" class="org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy">
 		<sec:filter-chain-map request-matcher="ant">
diff --git a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/http-extra-fsi-app-context.xml b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/http-extra-fsi-app-context.xml
index 3c6225451c..2481baeeb9 100644
--- a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/http-extra-fsi-app-context.xml
+++ b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/http-extra-fsi-app-context.xml
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:sec="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<sec:http>
 		<!-- Slip in a bean property name EL test -->
diff --git a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/http-path-param-stripping-app-context.xml b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/http-path-param-stripping-app-context.xml
index 123bfdb38d..4c014beeb1 100644
--- a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/http-path-param-stripping-app-context.xml
+++ b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/http-path-param-stripping-app-context.xml
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 <b:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:b="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<http pattern="/secured/**" use-expressions="false">
 		<intercept-url pattern="/secured/*user.html" access="ROLE_USER" />
diff --git a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/multi-sec-annotation-app-context.xml b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/multi-sec-annotation-app-context.xml
index 959c1eeb82..5e3b6267da 100644
--- a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/multi-sec-annotation-app-context.xml
+++ b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/multi-sec-annotation-app-context.xml
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 	xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
 	xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xsi:schemaLocation="
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop https://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<global-method-security pre-post-annotations="enabled" secured-annotations="enabled" />
 
diff --git a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/protect-pointcut-performance-app-context.xml b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/protect-pointcut-performance-app-context.xml
index cabc71b11b..14f1ee0f15 100644
--- a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/protect-pointcut-performance-app-context.xml
+++ b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/protect-pointcut-performance-app-context.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:sec="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<sec:global-method-security>
 		<sec:protect-pointcut expression="execution(* org.springframework.security.core.session.SessionRegistry.refreshLastRequest(..))" access="ROLE_ADMIN" />
diff --git a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/python-method-access-app-context.xml b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/python-method-access-app-context.xml
index dcacf74279..4972556462 100644
--- a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/python-method-access-app-context.xml
+++ b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/python-method-access-app-context.xml
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 	xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
 	xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xsi:schemaLocation="
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop https://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<global-method-security pre-post-annotations="enabled">
 		<pre-post-annotation-handling>
diff --git a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/sec-933-app-context.xml b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/sec-933-app-context.xml
index ee5b77ca1c..09b1d2ba4a 100755
--- a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/sec-933-app-context.xml
+++ b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/sec-933-app-context.xml
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 	xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
 	xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xsi:schemaLocation="
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx https://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop https://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 
 	<bean id="userRepository" class="org.springframework.security.integration.StubUserRepository"/>
diff --git a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/sec-936-app-context.xml b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/sec-936-app-context.xml
index 3a2dc0c29a..d76a933713 100755
--- a/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/sec-936-app-context.xml
+++ b/itest/context/src/integration-test/resources/sec-936-app-context.xml
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 	xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
 	xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xsi:schemaLocation="
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/util https://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<security:authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
 		<security:authentication-provider>
diff --git a/itest/web/pom.xml b/itest/web/pom.xml
index 7c68f4d61e..7aeab05310 100644
--- a/itest/web/pom.xml
+++ b/itest/web/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>itest-web</artifactId>
diff --git a/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/http-security-basic.xml b/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/http-security-basic.xml
index 3656a25bbb..fe92897aa2 100644
--- a/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/http-security-basic.xml
+++ b/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/http-security-basic.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 <beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<http use-expressions="false">
 		<intercept-url pattern="/**" access="ROLE_DEVELOPER,ROLE_USER" />
diff --git a/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/http-security-concurrency.xml b/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/http-security-concurrency.xml
index 48181b2f46..853b033ce3 100644
--- a/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/http-security-concurrency.xml
+++ b/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/http-security-concurrency.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 <beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<debug />
 
diff --git a/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/http-security.xml b/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/http-security.xml
index 94789db78c..e5b2e475c1 100644
--- a/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/http-security.xml
+++ b/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/http-security.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 <beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<!--
 	   Http App Context to test form login, remember-me and concurrent session control.
diff --git a/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/in-memory-provider.xml b/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/in-memory-provider.xml
index b3dcd648a5..fe34e160b8 100644
--- a/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/in-memory-provider.xml
+++ b/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/in-memory-provider.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 <beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
 		<authentication-provider>
diff --git a/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/testapp-servlet.xml b/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/testapp-servlet.xml
index 317c6ff74b..67b670e4e5 100644
--- a/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/testapp-servlet.xml
+++ b/itest/web/src/integration-test/resources/spring/testapp-servlet.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 		xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
-		xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-				http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
+		xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+				http://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<context:component-scan base-package="org.springframework.security.itest.web"/>
 	<context:annotation-config />
diff --git a/ldap/pom.xml b/ldap/pom.xml
index 454aedab5f..c7ee58c050 100644
--- a/ldap/pom.xml
+++ b/ldap/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-ldap</artifactId>
diff --git a/messaging/pom.xml b/messaging/pom.xml
index ecefc3dd86..263893e844 100644
--- a/messaging/pom.xml
+++ b/messaging/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-messaging</artifactId>
diff --git a/openid/pom.xml b/openid/pom.xml
index cf56a81a57..7f631fe9c4 100644
--- a/openid/pom.xml
+++ b/openid/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-openid</artifactId>
diff --git a/remoting/pom.xml b/remoting/pom.xml
index 84b5680aa1..f61b7ff68c 100644
--- a/remoting/pom.xml
+++ b/remoting/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-remoting</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/boot/helloworld/pom.xml b/samples/boot/helloworld/pom.xml
index cc1a99f8f7..1b2feff0f4 100644
--- a/samples/boot/helloworld/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/boot/helloworld/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-boot-helloworld</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/boot/insecure/pom.xml b/samples/boot/insecure/pom.xml
index 823925bf95..9cd99160b3 100644
--- a/samples/boot/insecure/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/boot/insecure/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-boot-insecure</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/aspectj/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/aspectj/pom.xml
index 25728cbfa2..67496c8317 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/aspectj/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/aspectj/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-javaconfig-aspectj</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/concurrency/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/concurrency/pom.xml
index 1b82042149..80ef792733 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/concurrency/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/concurrency/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-javaconfig-concurrency</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/data/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/data/pom.xml
index c669eba20b..06c6f7c2ec 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/data/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/data/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-javaconfig-data</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/form/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/form/pom.xml
index 66431c8a4e..a1e2ad8574 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/form/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/form/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-javaconfig-form</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/hellojs/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/hellojs/pom.xml
index 21dcebb2ea..0707981ba6 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/hellojs/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/hellojs/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-javaconfig-hellojs</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/hellomvc/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/hellomvc/pom.xml
index 0cd300cbc2..7f223f6b64 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/hellomvc/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/hellomvc/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-javaconfig-hellomvc</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/helloworld/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/helloworld/pom.xml
index f78718e680..ee5b8a7685 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/helloworld/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/helloworld/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-javaconfig-helloworld</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/inmemory/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/inmemory/pom.xml
index 32a66b3c05..e8f18b22ab 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/inmemory/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/inmemory/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-javaconfig-inmemory</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/jdbc/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/jdbc/pom.xml
index b4a5ad2468..958bd89496 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/jdbc/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/jdbc/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-javaconfig-jdbc</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/ldap/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/ldap/pom.xml
index 06e506f80c..fd732f0efb 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/ldap/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/ldap/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-javaconfig-ldap</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/messages/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/messages/pom.xml
index d33474c8a2..ad8de46963 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/messages/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/messages/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-javaconfig-messages</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/openid/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/openid/pom.xml
index 8143244569..8ab7b08825 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/openid/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/openid/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-javaconfig-openid</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/pom.xml
index 113feaedf6..946e719053 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>javaconfig</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/preauth/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/preauth/pom.xml
index 07225b5f2b..cefd320f8f 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/preauth/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/preauth/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-javaconfig-preauth</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/preauth/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/samples/javaconfig/preauth/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index b212e36bd2..c2fd6603b9 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/preauth/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/preauth/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
 
 	<login-config>
 		<auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/rememberme/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/rememberme/pom.xml
index 0e82741647..70d0dfb28c 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/rememberme/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/rememberme/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-javaconfig-rememberme</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/javaconfig/x509/pom.xml b/samples/javaconfig/x509/pom.xml
index b65774fe14..1a1979e044 100644
--- a/samples/javaconfig/x509/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/javaconfig/x509/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-javaconfig-x509</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/pom.xml b/samples/pom.xml
index 5b14b07579..75cff471bf 100644
--- a/samples/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>samples</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/aspectj/pom.xml b/samples/xml/aspectj/pom.xml
index c9639a001e..7f1b0f70c5 100644
--- a/samples/xml/aspectj/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/aspectj/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-xml-aspectj</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/aspectj/src/main/resources/aspectj-context.xml b/samples/xml/aspectj/src/main/resources/aspectj-context.xml
index 8cbe51c357..699a11060b 100644
--- a/samples/xml/aspectj/src/main/resources/aspectj-context.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/aspectj/src/main/resources/aspectj-context.xml
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xmlns:sec="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<sec:global-method-security secured-annotations="enabled" mode="aspectj" />
 <!--
diff --git a/samples/xml/cas/cassample/pom.xml b/samples/xml/cas/cassample/pom.xml
index c19af13651..0d80fe897c 100644
--- a/samples/xml/cas/cassample/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/cas/cassample/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-xml-cassample</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/cas/cassample/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml b/samples/xml/cas/cassample/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
index cd09db0707..f66aea187b 100644
--- a/samples/xml/cas/cassample/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/cas/cassample/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
 	xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util https://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<http entry-point-ref="casEntryPoint">
 		<intercept-url pattern="/" access="permitAll"/>
diff --git a/samples/xml/cas/cassample/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/samples/xml/cas/cassample/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index f2f270f314..fa78554d48 100644
--- a/samples/xml/cas/cassample/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/cas/cassample/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 <web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
 	<display-name>Spring Security CAS Demo Application</display-name>
 
 	<!--
diff --git a/samples/xml/cas/casserver/pom.xml b/samples/xml/cas/casserver/pom.xml
index fd02dd1bca..f582903ff3 100644
--- a/samples/xml/cas/casserver/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/cas/casserver/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-xml-casserver</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/cas/casserver/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/deployerConfigContext.xml b/samples/xml/cas/casserver/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/deployerConfigContext.xml
index 1201c6bce5..11b6469a59 100644
--- a/samples/xml/cas/casserver/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/deployerConfigContext.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/cas/casserver/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/deployerConfigContext.xml
@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@
 	   xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
 	   xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
 	   xmlns:sec="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
-	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
-	   http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd
-	   http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.2.xsd
-	   http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">
+	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
+	   http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx https://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd
+	   http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.2.xsd
+	   http://www.springframework.org/schema/util https://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">
 
 	<!--
 	   | The authentication manager defines security policy for authentication by specifying at a minimum
diff --git a/samples/xml/cas/casserver/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring-configuration/applicationContext.xml b/samples/xml/cas/casserver/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring-configuration/applicationContext.xml
index 0cd264495a..d07ef7be6a 100644
--- a/samples/xml/cas/casserver/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring-configuration/applicationContext.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/cas/casserver/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring-configuration/applicationContext.xml
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@
 	   xmlns:c="http://www.springframework.org/schema/c"
 	   xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
 	   xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
-	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">
+	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop https://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util https://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">
 	<description>
 		This is the main Spring configuration file with some of the main "core" classes defined. You shouldn't really
 		modify this unless you
diff --git a/samples/xml/cas/pom.xml b/samples/xml/cas/pom.xml
index fc5a975f2f..de7ac3354c 100644
--- a/samples/xml/cas/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/cas/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>cas</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/contacts/client/clientContext.xml b/samples/xml/contacts/client/clientContext.xml
index d0a31e6568..f30d1728a5 100644
--- a/samples/xml/contacts/client/clientContext.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/contacts/client/clientContext.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "https://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
 
 <!--
   - Contacts web application
diff --git a/samples/xml/contacts/pom.xml b/samples/xml/contacts/pom.xml
index 9c9f7ff7ce..be0f1dd467 100644
--- a/samples/xml/contacts/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/contacts/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-xml-contacts</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/resources/applicationContext-common-authorization.xml b/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/resources/applicationContext-common-authorization.xml
index 75fd94426a..d86bf96a41 100644
--- a/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/resources/applicationContext-common-authorization.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/resources/applicationContext-common-authorization.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.1.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.1.xsd">
 
 <!--
   - Application context containing the ACL beans.
diff --git a/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/resources/applicationContext-common-business.xml b/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/resources/applicationContext-common-business.xml
index d2f7452eab..a8a680beba 100644
--- a/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/resources/applicationContext-common-business.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/resources/applicationContext-common-business.xml
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx https://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
 		<property name="basename" value="classpath:org/springframework/security/messages"/>
diff --git a/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/resources/applicationContext-security.xml b/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/resources/applicationContext-security.xml
index 4680b0aa56..3292331f7d 100644
--- a/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/resources/applicationContext-security.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/resources/applicationContext-security.xml
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 <b:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:b="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<global-method-security pre-post-annotations="enabled">
 		<expression-handler ref="expressionHandler"/>
diff --git a/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/contacts-servlet.xml b/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/contacts-servlet.xml
index 9c3e171c6a..2ee5b16a33 100644
--- a/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/contacts-servlet.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/contacts-servlet.xml
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 	xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
 	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
 	xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc https://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<!-- ========================== WEB DEFINITIONS ======================= -->
 
diff --git a/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/remoting-servlet.xml b/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/remoting-servlet.xml
index 994c28a647..f3f25bd504 100644
--- a/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/remoting-servlet.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/remoting-servlet.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "https://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
 
 <!--
   - Contacts web application
diff --git a/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index 3274374dcf..7b4f0d9c4f 100644
--- a/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/contacts/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 <web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
 	<display-name>Contacts Sample Application</display-name>
 
 	<!--
diff --git a/samples/xml/dms/pom.xml b/samples/xml/dms/pom.xml
index c539adfc2b..57d8fac768 100644
--- a/samples/xml/dms/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/dms/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-xml-dms</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/dms/src/main/resources/applicationContext-dms-insecure.xml b/samples/xml/dms/src/main/resources/applicationContext-dms-insecure.xml
index 24acf276ae..8224bea82b 100755
--- a/samples/xml/dms/src/main/resources/applicationContext-dms-insecure.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/dms/src/main/resources/applicationContext-dms-insecure.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="jdbcTemplate" class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate">
 		<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
diff --git a/samples/xml/dms/src/main/resources/applicationContext-dms-secure.xml b/samples/xml/dms/src/main/resources/applicationContext-dms-secure.xml
index ce489072e1..6a6634fa12 100755
--- a/samples/xml/dms/src/main/resources/applicationContext-dms-secure.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/dms/src/main/resources/applicationContext-dms-secure.xml
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:s="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="jdbcTemplate" class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate">
 		<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
diff --git a/samples/xml/dms/src/main/resources/applicationContext-dms-shared.xml b/samples/xml/dms/src/main/resources/applicationContext-dms-shared.xml
index cdd9167ed4..d7ecf5d416 100755
--- a/samples/xml/dms/src/main/resources/applicationContext-dms-shared.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/dms/src/main/resources/applicationContext-dms-shared.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   -->
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
 		<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
diff --git a/samples/xml/gae/pom.xml b/samples/xml/gae/pom.xml
index 5fbbfe2f8c..02b181eb18 100644
--- a/samples/xml/gae/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/gae/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-xml-gae</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/gae/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml b/samples/xml/gae/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
index 14a29ac05f..ce1152becf 100644
--- a/samples/xml/gae/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/gae/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 <b:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:b="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<http pattern="/_ah/**" security="none"/>
 	<http pattern="/static/**" security="none" />
diff --git a/samples/xml/gae/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/gae-servlet.xml b/samples/xml/gae/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/gae-servlet.xml
index 34a38b2bcd..352e4e520e 100644
--- a/samples/xml/gae/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/gae-servlet.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/gae/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/gae-servlet.xml
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 		xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
 		xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
-		xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-				http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
-				http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd">
+		xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+				http://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
+				http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc https://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<!-- Enables JSR-303 -->
 	<mvc:annotation-driven/>
diff --git a/samples/xml/gae/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/samples/xml/gae/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index a907c44705..c123a5fef6 100644
--- a/samples/xml/gae/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/gae/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
-	xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" version="2.5">
+	xmlns:web="https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" version="2.5">
 
 	<context-param>
 		<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
diff --git a/samples/xml/helloworld/pom.xml b/samples/xml/helloworld/pom.xml
index 484cc5125f..e37cfecb1f 100644
--- a/samples/xml/helloworld/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/helloworld/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-xml-helloworld</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/helloworld/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/security.xml b/samples/xml/helloworld/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/security.xml
index d39e52a2f1..7dfb7b8b50 100644
--- a/samples/xml/helloworld/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/security.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/helloworld/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/security.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <b:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 		 xmlns:b="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 		 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-		 xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+		 xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 	<http />
 
 	<user-service>
diff --git a/samples/xml/helloworld/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/samples/xml/helloworld/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index 68563b6eea..5e99e51420 100644
--- a/samples/xml/helloworld/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/helloworld/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 		 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 		 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
-  http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
+  https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
 
 	<!--
 	  - Location of the XML file that defines the root application context
diff --git a/samples/xml/insecure/pom.xml b/samples/xml/insecure/pom.xml
index 2bca330a9b..bc2079cd99 100644
--- a/samples/xml/insecure/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/insecure/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-xml-insecure</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/insecuremvc/pom.xml b/samples/xml/insecuremvc/pom.xml
index e8125d37b8..4736db649b 100644
--- a/samples/xml/insecuremvc/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/insecuremvc/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-xml-insecuremvc</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/jaas/pom.xml b/samples/xml/jaas/pom.xml
index 4b7450f68c..1940f664bc 100644
--- a/samples/xml/jaas/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/jaas/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-xml-jaas</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/jaas/src/main/resources/applicationContext-security.xml b/samples/xml/jaas/src/main/resources/applicationContext-security.xml
index 42228d8414..b65788a204 100644
--- a/samples/xml/jaas/src/main/resources/applicationContext-security.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/jaas/src/main/resources/applicationContext-security.xml
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 	xmlns:sec="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
 	xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util https://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd">
 
 
 	<sec:http auto-config="true" jaas-api-provision="true">
diff --git a/samples/xml/jaas/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/samples/xml/jaas/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index c4a755a8c4..0a385e23d9 100644
--- a/samples/xml/jaas/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/jaas/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 <web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
 	<display-name>JAAS Sample Application</display-name>
 
 	<!--
diff --git a/samples/xml/ldap/pom.xml b/samples/xml/ldap/pom.xml
index b06d0e4cc7..e5280ffe49 100644
--- a/samples/xml/ldap/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/ldap/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-xml-ldap</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/ldap/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml b/samples/xml/ldap/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
index 16a8ead1a1..c750d52a30 100644
--- a/samples/xml/ldap/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/ldap/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:s="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<s:http>
 		<s:intercept-url pattern="/secure/extreme/**" access="hasRole('ROLE_SUPERVISOR')"/>
diff --git a/samples/xml/ldap/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/samples/xml/ldap/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index 91104c0a33..41ffbf0e8b 100644
--- a/samples/xml/ldap/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/ldap/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 <web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
 
 	<display-name>Spring Security LDAP Demo Application</display-name>
 
diff --git a/samples/xml/openid/pom.xml b/samples/xml/openid/pom.xml
index 3f4b8b4fe6..62809ca757 100644
--- a/samples/xml/openid/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/openid/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-xml-openid</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/openid/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml b/samples/xml/openid/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
index b6a2ec55a4..28c088eb4a 100644
--- a/samples/xml/openid/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/openid/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 <b:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:b="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<http>
 		<intercept-url pattern="/openidlogin.jsp*" access="permitAll"/>
@@ -20,17 +20,17 @@
 		<openid-login login-page="/openidlogin.jsp" user-service-ref="registeringUserService"
 				authentication-failure-url="/openidlogin.jsp?login_error=true">
 			<attribute-exchange identifier-match="https://www.google.com/.*">
-				<openid-attribute name="email" type="http://axschema.org/contact/email" required="true" count="1"/>
-				<openid-attribute name="firstname" type="http://axschema.org/namePerson/first" required="true" />
-				<openid-attribute name="lastname" type="http://axschema.org/namePerson/last" required="true" />
+				<openid-attribute name="email" type="https://axschema.org/contact/email" required="true" count="1"/>
+				<openid-attribute name="firstname" type="https://axschema.org/namePerson/first" required="true" />
+				<openid-attribute name="lastname" type="https://axschema.org/namePerson/last" required="true" />
 			</attribute-exchange>
 			<attribute-exchange identifier-match=".*yahoo.com.*">
-				<openid-attribute name="email" type="http://axschema.org/contact/email" required="true"/>
-				<openid-attribute name="fullname" type="http://axschema.org/namePerson" required="true" />
+				<openid-attribute name="email" type="https://axschema.org/contact/email" required="true"/>
+				<openid-attribute name="fullname" type="https://axschema.org/namePerson" required="true" />
 			</attribute-exchange>
 			<attribute-exchange identifier-match=".*myopenid.com.*">
-				<openid-attribute name="email" type="http://schema.openid.net/contact/email" required="true"/>
-				<openid-attribute name="fullname" type="http://schema.openid.net/namePerson" required="true" />
+				<openid-attribute name="email" type="https://schema.openid.net/contact/email" required="true"/>
+				<openid-attribute name="fullname" type="https://schema.openid.net/namePerson" required="true" />
 			</attribute-exchange>
 		</openid-login>
 		<remember-me token-repository-ref="tokenRepo"/>
@@ -53,10 +53,10 @@
  -->
 <!--
 	<user-service id="userService">
-		<user name="http://luke.taylor.myopenid.com/" authorities="ROLE_SUPERVISOR,ROLE_USER" />
+		<user name="https://luke.taylor.myopenid.com/" authorities="ROLE_SUPERVISOR,ROLE_USER" />
 		<user name="http://luke.taylor.openid.cn/" authorities="ROLE_SUPERVISOR,ROLE_USER" />
-		<user name="http://raykrueger.blogspot.com/" authorities="ROLE_SUPERVISOR,ROLE_USER" />
-		<user name="http://spring.security.test.myopenid.com/" authorities="ROLE_SUPERVISOR,ROLE_USER" />
+		<user name="https://raykrueger.blogspot.com/" authorities="ROLE_SUPERVISOR,ROLE_USER" />
+		<user name="https://spring.security.test.myopenid.com/" authorities="ROLE_SUPERVISOR,ROLE_USER" />
 	</user-service>
  -->
 </b:beans>
diff --git a/samples/xml/openid/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/samples/xml/openid/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index 0b01e67188..38f1ffc789 100644
--- a/samples/xml/openid/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/openid/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 <web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
 
 	<display-name>Spring Security OpenID Demo Application</display-name>
 
diff --git a/samples/xml/pom.xml b/samples/xml/pom.xml
index 7a28754702..fd6c6c079a 100644
--- a/samples/xml/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>xml</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/preauth/pom.xml b/samples/xml/preauth/pom.xml
index e466782e22..ef59960135 100644
--- a/samples/xml/preauth/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/preauth/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-xml-preauth</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/preauth/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml b/samples/xml/preauth/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
index 4698926782..bb7523b5d2 100644
--- a/samples/xml/preauth/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/preauth/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	   xmlns:sec="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.1.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.1.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<sec:http>
 		<sec:intercept-url pattern="/secure/extreme/**" access="hasRole('ROLE_SUPERVISOR')"/>
diff --git a/samples/xml/preauth/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/samples/xml/preauth/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index cd4173c21d..5bac977c9f 100644
--- a/samples/xml/preauth/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/preauth/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 <web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
 
 	<display-name>Spring Security Preauthentication Demo Application</display-name>
 
diff --git a/samples/xml/servletapi/pom.xml b/samples/xml/servletapi/pom.xml
index c4e6911892..935e4f1759 100644
--- a/samples/xml/servletapi/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/servletapi/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-xml-servletapi</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/servletapi/src/main/resources/applicationContext-security.xml b/samples/xml/servletapi/src/main/resources/applicationContext-security.xml
index 966594acfb..1ba08564be 100644
--- a/samples/xml/servletapi/src/main/resources/applicationContext-security.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/servletapi/src/main/resources/applicationContext-security.xml
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 		 xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 		 xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
 		 xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
-		 xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd">
+		 xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/util https://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<http auto-config="true">
 		<intercept-url pattern="/**" access="permitAll"/>
diff --git a/samples/xml/servletapi/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml b/samples/xml/servletapi/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml
index b8b114d6f7..548541298e 100644
--- a/samples/xml/servletapi/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/servletapi/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
   xmlns:b="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
   xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd">
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc https://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd">
 
   <context:component-scan base-package="org.springframework.security.samples.servletapi.mvc" />
 
diff --git a/samples/xml/servletapi/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/samples/xml/servletapi/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index af75e5fc0a..f9baaac4d9 100644
--- a/samples/xml/servletapi/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/servletapi/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 	  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	  xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
+	  xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
 	  version="3.0">
 
 	<!--
diff --git a/samples/xml/tutorial/pom.xml b/samples/xml/tutorial/pom.xml
index f3e99c834d..1fe0cb594e 100644
--- a/samples/xml/tutorial/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/tutorial/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-samples-xml-tutorial</artifactId>
diff --git a/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/resources/applicationContext-business.xml b/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/resources/applicationContext-business.xml
index 6745f83d34..9552bc447d 100644
--- a/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/resources/applicationContext-business.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/resources/applicationContext-business.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="bankDao" class="bigbank.BankDaoStub"/>
 
diff --git a/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml b/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
index fc25528dbc..b30a226d2d 100644
--- a/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 <beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
 
 	<debug />
 
diff --git a/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/bank-servlet.xml b/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/bank-servlet.xml
index 006c9b9c5d..63577b0928 100644
--- a/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/bank-servlet.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/bank-servlet.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<bean name="/listAccounts.html" class="bigbank.web.ListAccounts">
 		<constructor-arg ref="bankService"/>
diff --git a/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index 3d0b9550b3..adeb2030bd 100644
--- a/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/samples/xml/tutorial/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 <web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
 
 	<display-name>Spring Security Tutorial Application</display-name>
 
diff --git a/sandbox/heavyduty/jetty-jmx.xml b/sandbox/heavyduty/jetty-jmx.xml
index f109d6c233..bd0451fa64 100644
--- a/sandbox/heavyduty/jetty-jmx.xml
+++ b/sandbox/heavyduty/jetty-jmx.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Mort Bay Consulting//DTD Configure//EN" "http://jetty.mortbay.org/configure.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Mort Bay Consulting//DTD Configure//EN" "https://jetty.mortbay.org/configure.dtd">
 
 
 <!-- =============================================================== -->
diff --git a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/resources/applicationContext-business.xml b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/resources/applicationContext-business.xml
index 65376beb8f..1e3acd89f0 100755
--- a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/resources/applicationContext-business.xml
+++ b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/resources/applicationContext-business.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="bankDao" class="bigbank.BankDaoStub"/>
 
diff --git a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/appContext-misc.xml b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/appContext-misc.xml
index 506f314d55..b17f3d873f 100755
--- a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/appContext-misc.xml
+++ b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/appContext-misc.xml
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
 	xmlns:sec="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.5.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/util https://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.5.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="accessDecisionManager" class="org.springframework.security.vote.AffirmativeBased">
 		<property name="decisionVoters">
diff --git a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/appContext-persistence.xml b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/appContext-persistence.xml
index 8b82eb9c20..2a0c081ce0 100755
--- a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/appContext-persistence.xml
+++ b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/appContext-persistence.xml
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@
   xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
   xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
   xsi:schemaLocation="
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/config http://www.springframework.org/schema/config/spring-config-2.5.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop https://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx https://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/config https://www.springframework.org/schema/config/spring-config-2.5.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
 
   <bean id="AllPropertiesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
 	<property name="location" value="classpath:jdbc.properties"/>
diff --git a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/appContext-security.xml b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/appContext-security.xml
index e78dad3351..a94ab0c2d9 100755
--- a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/appContext-security.xml
+++ b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/appContext-security.xml
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
 	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
-						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop https://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
+						http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<!--b:import resource="appContext-misc.xml"/-->
 	<context:component-scan base-package='sample'/>
diff --git a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-acegi-security.xml b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-acegi-security.xml
index 3d7ac540e3..2699f2dfa4 100644
--- a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-acegi-security.xml
+++ b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext-acegi-security.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "https://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
 
 <!--
   - A simple "base bones" Acegi Security configuration.
diff --git a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence.xml b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence.xml
index 3f9784b418..9e3c025d80 100644
--- a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence.xml
+++ b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
-http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd"
+https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd"
   version="1.0">
 
   <persistence-unit name="SAMPLE" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
diff --git a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/heavyduty-servlet.xml b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/heavyduty-servlet.xml
index 2aaaa2aac2..f5a184f54b 100755
--- a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/heavyduty-servlet.xml
+++ b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/heavyduty-servlet.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<bean name="testMultiController" class="heavyduty.web.TestMultiActionController">
 	   <property name="methodNameResolver">
diff --git a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index eebf0d9123..ce6493a4fe 100644
--- a/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/sandbox/heavyduty/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4">
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4">
 
 	<display-name>Spring Security Tutorial Application</display-name>
 
diff --git a/sandbox/webflow/src/main/resources/applicationContext-business.xml b/sandbox/webflow/src/main/resources/applicationContext-business.xml
index 65376beb8f..1e3acd89f0 100644
--- a/sandbox/webflow/src/main/resources/applicationContext-business.xml
+++ b/sandbox/webflow/src/main/resources/applicationContext-business.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="bankDao" class="bigbank.BankDaoStub"/>
 
diff --git a/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/secure.xml b/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/secure.xml
index 43f1ef9eec..6257e71045 100644
--- a/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/secure.xml
+++ b/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/secure.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <flow xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow"
 	  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow/spring-webflow-2.0.xsd">
+	  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow https://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow/spring-webflow-2.0.xsd">
 
 	<secured attributes="ROLE_USER" />
 
diff --git a/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/security-config.xml b/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/security-config.xml
index 297c358d35..95acdb83b3 100644
--- a/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/security-config.xml
+++ b/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/security-config.xml
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 	   xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
 	   xsi:schemaLocation="
 		   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
-		   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+		   https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
 		   http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
-		   http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.2.xsd">
+		   https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.2.xsd">
 
 	<!-- Configure Spring Security -->
 	<security:http auto-config="true">
diff --git a/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index 2291e594e4..2163b88d28 100644
--- a/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4">
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4">
 
 	<display-name>Spring Security Tutorial Application</display-name>
 
diff --git a/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/webflow-servlet.xml b/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/webflow-servlet.xml
index 2205b387fd..70aba18dee 100644
--- a/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/webflow-servlet.xml
+++ b/sandbox/webflow/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/webflow-servlet.xml
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 	xmlns:webflow="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config"
 	xsi:schemaLocation="
 		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+		https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
 		http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config/spring-webflow-config-2.0.xsd">
+		https://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config/spring-webflow-config-2.0.xsd">
 
 	<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
 		<property name="mappings">
diff --git a/taglibs/pom.xml b/taglibs/pom.xml
index f6aa3aa028..35b0be4a1f 100644
--- a/taglibs/pom.xml
+++ b/taglibs/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
diff --git a/test/pom.xml b/test/pom.xml
index 1cc1d8122a..a739863c6d 100644
--- a/test/pom.xml
+++ b/test/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-test</artifactId>
diff --git a/web/pom.xml b/web/pom.xml
index 991c25c94c..876436c3ff 100644
--- a/web/pom.xml
+++ b/web/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
diff --git a/web/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/web/authentication/DelegatingAuthenticationEntryPointTest-context.xml b/web/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/web/authentication/DelegatingAuthenticationEntryPointTest-context.xml
index 5c52ebd913..66d965955b 100644
--- a/web/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/web/authentication/DelegatingAuthenticationEntryPointTest-context.xml
+++ b/web/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/web/authentication/DelegatingAuthenticationEntryPointTest-context.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="daep" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.DelegatingAuthenticationEntryPoint">
 		<constructor-arg>
diff --git a/web/src/test/resources/webxml/NoRoles.web.xml b/web/src/test/resources/webxml/NoRoles.web.xml
index 9a94d8b634..dd0855b135 100644
--- a/web/src/test/resources/webxml/NoRoles.web.xml
+++ b/web/src/test/resources/webxml/NoRoles.web.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "https://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
 <web-app id="WebApp">
 	<display-name>poc-acegi-web</display-name>
 	<context-param>
diff --git a/web/src/test/resources/webxml/Role1-4.web.xml b/web/src/test/resources/webxml/Role1-4.web.xml
index eb07eca720..102864cc42 100644
--- a/web/src/test/resources/webxml/Role1-4.web.xml
+++ b/web/src/test/resources/webxml/Role1-4.web.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "https://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
 <web-app id="WebApp">
 	<display-name>poc-acegi-web</display-name>
 	<context-param>