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Configuring for Web Authentication

To enable Web Authentication, you must specify the IP address of the device hosting the HTTP session.

Before You Begin
Establish basic connectivity. (See the Getting Started Guide for your device.) Read Understanding Authentication Schemes. Read Firewall User Authentication Overview.

These settings are used if the firewall user accessing a protected resource wants to be authenticated by directly accessing the Web Server for Web authentication.

When referencing the following example, note that to enable or disable Web Authentication, you must add or remove the Web authentication HTTP flag under the interface's address hierarchy.

The following example shows how to set up a policy allowing access to FWClient1, when traffic encounters a policy that has Web-authentication enabled (Policy-W). FWClient1 should already have been authenticated through the Web Authentication login page as explained in Configuring for External Authentication Servers .

To configure a server for web authentication in the scenario shown in Figure 144, use either J-Web or the CLI configuration editor.

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