Configuring Web authentication to support Web proxy

About support of Web proxy for Web authentication

By default, proxied HTTP requests cannot trigger Web authentication but are silently dropped. To allow such HTTP requests to trigger Web authentication, specify the port numbers of the Web proxy servers on the device.

Restrictions and guidelines

If a user's browser uses the Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) protocol to discover Web proxy servers, you must perform the following tasks:

For Web authentication to support Web proxy:

Procedure

  1. Enter system view.

    system-view

  2. Add a Web proxy server port number.

    web-auth proxy port port-number

    You can execute this command multiple times to specify multiple port numbers of Web proxy servers.