HTTP request authentication (Airlock One-Shot flow)

Airlock Gateway (WAF) provides several authentication flows (see mapping configuration):

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Type

Main Usage

Description

Redirect

Web application

Redirect browser to login page (denied access URL) if role missing on mapping.

One-shot

REST clients

If role missing on mapping, temporarily stop request in Airlock Gateway (WAF) and send HTTP header to IAM (denied access URL) for inspection.

One-Shot with body

REST clients

Same as One-shot but with HTTP body sent to IAM.

Note that the one-shot requests are only sent from Airlock Gateway (WAF) to IAM if the required role(s) are missing on the mapping.