To Create Access Filters for HTTP Proxy Authentication

Any store administrator can proxy authenticate to any service. (For more information about store administrators, see Specifying Administrator Access to the Store authenticate to the service if their client host is granted access via a proxy authentication access filter.

Proxy authentication allows other services, such as a portal site, to authenticate users and pass the authentication credentials to the HTTP login service. For example, assume a portal site offers several services, one of which is Messenger Express web-based email. By using the HTTP proxy authentication feature, end users need only authenticate once to the portal service; they need not authenticate again to access their email. The portal site must configure a login server that acts as the interface between the client and the service. To help configure the login server for Messenger Express authentication, Sun Java System offers an authentication SDK for Messenger Express.

This section describes how to create allow filters to permit HTTP proxy authentication by IP address. This section does not describe how to set up your login server or how to use the Messenger Express authentication SDK. For more information about setting up your login server for Messenger Express and using the authentication SDK, contact your Sun Java System representative.

To Create Access Filters for HTTP Proxy Authentication

Steps

1. In Console, open the Messaging Server that you want to create access filters for.

2. Click the Configuration tab.

3. Open the Services folder in the left pane and select HTTP beneath the Services folder.

4. Click the Proxy tab in the right pane.

   The Allow field in the tab shows the existing Allow filters for proxy authentication.

5. To create a new filter, click Add.

   An Allow filter window opens. Enter the text of the new filter into the window and click OK.

6. To edit an existing filter, select the filter and click Edit.

   An Allow filter window opens. Edit the text of the filter display in the window, and click OK.

7. To delete an existing filter, select a field from the Allow field, and click Delete.

8. When you are finished making changes to the Proxy tab, click Save.

   For more information about allow filter syntax, see Filter Syntax.

   Command Line

   You can also specify access filters for proxy authentication to the HTTP service at the command line as follows:

   configutil -o service.service.proxydomainallowed -v filter

   where filter follows the syntax rules described in Filter Syntax.