SM_AUTHTYPE HTTP header variable value

Products

• CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign-On

Issue/Introduction

Description:

Depending on the authentication scheme used to authenticate users, the variable SM_AUTHTYPE can have different values.

Solution:

• Not Protected -- for unprotected resources
• Anonymous -- For Anonymous authentication scheme
• Auto -- For resources that are auto authorized(like .g if,.jpg etc)
• Proxy Trust -- Proxy Authentication
• NT Challenge/Response -- Windows ntlm authentication
• Passport -- Passport Authentication
• Certificate + SSL Basic -- for Cert and Basic
• Certificate + SSL Form -- For Cert and Form
• SSL Basic -- For Basic over SSL
• Certificate -- Certificate Authentication
• Certificate or SSL Basic -- Cert or Basic
• Certificate or SSL Form -- Cert or Form
• Form -- HTML forms authentication
• Basic -- Basic Authentication
• SAML Assertion -- SAML authentication

Environment

Release:
Component: SMPLC