Secure Authentication

Secure Authentication

The authentication proxy uses a JavaScript applet to help establish a secure authentication session with the user’s web browser. This secure authentication prevents a client from mistakenly submitting a user name/password combination to a network web server other than the authentication proxy router. For this to work, user browsers must allow JavaScripts prior to initiating the HTTP connection. With the JavaScript feature enabled on the browser, secure authentication is done automatically and the user sees the authentication message displayed earlier in Figure 8-2.