Configuring the proxy to ignore WWW-Authenticate headers

By default, Content Gateway does not cache objects that contain WWW-Authenticate response headers. The WWW-Authenticate header contains authentication parameters that the client uses when preparing the authentication challenge response to an origin server.

 

Important  The default behavior of not caching objects with WWW-Authenticate headers is appropriate in most cases. Configure the proxy to ignore server WWW-Authenticate headers only if you are knowledgeable about HTTP 1.1.

You can configure the proxy to ignore origin server WWW-Authenticate headers, in which case, objects with WWW-Authenticate headers are stored in the cache for future requests.

1.	Open the records.config file located in the Content Gateway config directory.

2.	Edit the following variable:

 

Variable	Description
proxy.config.http.cache.ignore_authentication	Set to 1 to cache objects with WWW-Authenticate headers.

3.	Save and close the file.

4.	To apply the changes, run the following command from the Content Gateway bin directory:

content_line -x