Configuring WINHTTP authentication in IAG

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Applies To: Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG)

You can authenticate users in Whale Communications Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) 2007 using WINHTTP authentication. The WINHTTP authentication scheme checks users' credentials as follows:

  • You assign a URL of a page that requires users to authenticate using an HTTP 401 request.

  • The web server you define checks whether the user is authorized to access the requested URL. Only users that are authorized to access the URL are deemed authenticated.

WINHTTP authentication flow

The following figure illustrates the authentication process users go through when the WINHTTP authentication scheme is implemented.

WINHTTP Authentication Flow

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Note

The flow allows for three login attempts, after which login failure is final. The actual number of login attempts users are allowed is determined in the Authentication tab, in Permitted Authentication Attempts.