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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2017
Ca, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Winfield Scott Kiester, Lindon, UT (US);
Nathan D. Toone, Layton, UT (US);
CA, INC., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) proxy authentication using custom headers. In one embodiment, a method may include authenticating an HTTP session of a client, generating an authentication token that identifies the authenticated HTTP session, sending and intercepting an HTTP response with a custom header that includes the authentication token, caching the authentication token, intercepting one or more HTTP requests, adding the custom header that includes the authentication token to the HTTP requests, sending and intercepting the HTTP requests with the custom header that includes the authentication token, and, in response to intercepting at the proxy the custom header that includes the authentication token with the one or more HTTP requests, sending the one or more HTTP requests to one or more servers according to a policy corresponding to the authenticated HTTP session.