SRA Gateway
•Mandatory server authentication. The client must authenticate the server.
•Optional authentication. The server is configured to authenticate the client.
Personal Digital Certificate (PDC) authentication is a mechanism that authenticates a user through SSL client authentication. The Gateway supports PDC authentication with the support of Access Manager authentication modules. With SSL client authentication, the SSL handshake ends at the Gateway. This
If the session information is not found as part of the HTTP or HTTPS request, the Gateway directly takes the user to the authentication page by obtaining the login URL from Access Manager. Similarly, if the Gateway finds that the session is not valid as part of a request, it takes the user to the login URL and at successful login, takes the user to the requested destination.
After the SSL session has been established, the Gateway continues to receive the incoming requests, checks session validity, and then forwards the request to the destination web server.
The Gateway server handles all Netlet traffic. If an incoming client request is Netlet traffic, the Gateway checks for session validity, decrypts the traffic, and forwards it to the application server. If Netlet Proxy is enabled, the Gateway checks for session validity and forwards it to Netlet Proxy. The Netlet Proxy then decrypts and forwards it to the application server.
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Gateway Access Control
The Gateway enforces access control by using Allowed URLs and Denied URLs lists. Even when URL access is allowed, the Gateway checks the validly of the session against the Access Manager session server. URLs that are designated in the Non Authenticated URL list bypass session validation, as well as the Allowed and Denied lists. Entries in the Denied URLs list take precedence over entries in the Allowed URLs list. If a particular URL is not part of any list, then access is denied to that URL. The wildcard character, *, can also be used as a part of the URL in either the Allow or Deny list.
