Autowiring HttpServletRequest in Spring controller

Let's say I have a Spring controller.

@RequestMappin("/path")
public MyController {
}

As stated, default scope of the controller is Singleton. I know that I can autowire request in REQUEST scope beans, however, if I try to autowire request, so that

@RequestMappin("/path")
public MyController {
        @Autowired
        private HttpServletRequest request;
    }

It still works, and for each request I get appropriate request object. Does it mean that autowire works regardless the scope is request or not?