Standard WebSEAL junctions

WebSEAL junctions create a scalable website. When demands on a website grow, we can add more servers to expand the capabilities of the site.

Security Verify Access is a product for authenticating and authorizing requests to protected web application servers. The protection of web servers is achieved by blocking direct access to the servers, and then routing the requests to WebSEAL. WebSEAL authorizes each request and, if allowed, passes on the request to the protected web server. WebSEAL returns any response back to the client.

WebSEAL acts as a single host web server. WebSEAL merges all of the server document spaces into a single document space. By merging document spaces, WebSEAL can protect many web servers and still act as a single host server. The term junctioning describes the action of merging a web server's document space into WebSEAL's single unified virtual document space.

For successful communication across junctions, WebSEAL must filter absolute and relative server URLs in HTML response documents that are returned from the protected web servers. Filtering correctly displays the URLs when they are viewed as part of WebSEAL's single host document space. The junction feature of WebSEAL changes the server and path information that must be used to access resources on junctioned systems. A link to a resource on a junctioned server can succeed only if the URL contains the identity of the junction.

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