Authentication for Forward Proxy Servers

If you enable authentication (that is, password protection) for a forward proxy server, the proxy server will prompt users for their user name and password when they attempt to start a 3DOrchestrate station while using the proxy server. You can also enable selected users to bypass the login dialog box by defining their credentials in the properties file on the forward proxy server and on the 3DOrchestrate station.

The Apache HTTP Client that 3DOrchestrate uses to communicate with external entities supports the following authentication schemes:

  • Basic
  • Digest
  • NTLM
  • SPNEGO/Kerberos

If you want to enable a particular user to bypass the login dialog box, you can define their credentials in the properties file. Enter the following lines:

#--- Forward proxy server authentication settings
#--- If all the http/s traffic is going through a forward proxy and needs authentication, then define the below properties
##fiper.proxy.user.name=<Proxy server user name>
##fiper.proxy.user.key=<Proxy server user password>
##fiper.proxy.user.domain=<Domain name>