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Portal Agents and Authentication Strategies

Portal Agents can be configured to support different authentication strategies:

• Simple Portal Agents. The external application does not require any authentication parameters.
• Single Sign-On Portal Agents. The external application requires authentication parameters. Form-based Portal Agents send authentication parameters as part of the body portion of the HTTP request.

For more information about authentication, see Siebel Security Guide.