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Configuring the proxy to ignore WWW-Authenticate headers
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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.
 
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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.
To do this:
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Open the records.config file located in the Content Gateway config directory.
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Edit the proxy.config.http.cache.ignore_authentication variable to 1 to cache objects with WWW-Authenticate headers.
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Save and close the file.
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To apply the changes, run the following command from the Content Gateway bin directory:
content_line -x

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