Enabling "Forward Authentication Information to Web Server"
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Q:
SS wrote: By enabling "Forward Authentication Information to Web Server" in iChain configuration, iChain passes the user credential in the Authorization header to the origin Web server. Is this authorization header available in the network traffic between the browser and iChain? We do not want the user credential to be passed in the header (even though it is base64 encoded) in HTTP mode of communication.
A:
"Forward Authentication Information to Web Server" sends the credentials directly from the proxy to the Web server. If you are using form fill, the credentials are sent back to the browser, and then to the application. These credentials can either be secured using Secure Exchange, or there is a credential masking feature in iChain 2.2.
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