Sun Microsystems 2005Q1 manual Designing SRA Deployment Scenarios

Designing SRA Deployment Scenarios

Designing SRA Deployment Scenarios

The SRA Gateway provides the interface and security barrier between the remote user sessions originating from the Internet and your organization’s intranet. The Gateway serves two main functions:

•Provides basic authentication services to incoming user sessions, including establishing identity and allowing or denying access to the platform.

•Provides mapping and rewriting services to enable web-based links to the intranet content for users.

For Internet access, use 128-bit SSL to provide the best security arrangement and encryption or communication between the user’s browser and Portal Server. The Gateway, Netlet, NetFile, Netlet Proxy, Rewriter Proxy, and Proxylet constitute the major components of SRA.

This section lists some of the possible configurations of these components. Choose the right configuration based on your business needs. This section is meant only as a guide, not a complete deployment reference.

TIP	To set up the authlessanonymous page to display through the
	Gateway, add /portal/dt to the non-authenticated URLs of the
	gateway profile. However, this means that even for normal users,
	portal pages will not need authentication and no session validation
	is performed.

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