Shortcuts with Novell Portal Services
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Aug 2002
Q.
I am trying to configure some shortcuts in Novell Portal Services (NPS) where the shortcut calls URLs that are Web applications are accelerated by iChain. The portal server is also being accessed via the same iChain server (another accelerator).
When I try to access the shortcuts from NPS, I get the iChain login screen. How can I SSO-enable these shortcuts?
Shorted with Shakhty
A.
Dear Shorted: Once you authenticate to iChain, a cookie is set on the browser that is linked to the domain that you have access to. If you access another accelerated site through iChain that has a different domain than the one to which you have initially authenticated, you will be asked to log in again.
iChain v2.0 doesn't have many ways of getting around this; however, iChain v2.1 does. If you have v2.1, you can take advantage of the domain-based multi-homing capabilities when renaming the newly named URLs, or you can enable the cross domain authentication feature that allows you to authenticate once to all accelerators defined in a domain.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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