Web-Based Authentication - Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Configuration Manual

Chapter 1 Product Overview
Security Features

Web-based Authentication

The web-based authentication feature, known as Web Authentication Proxy, enables you to authenticate
end users on host systems that do not run the IEEE 802.1X supplicant. When you initiate an HTTP
session, this feature intercepts ingress HTTP packets from the host and sends an HTML login page to
your. You key in the credentials, which the web-based authentication feature sends to the AAA server
for authentication. If authentication succeeds, web-based authentication sends a Login-Successful
HTML page to the host and applies the access policies returned by the AAA server.
For information on configuring web-based authentication, see Chapter 46, "Configuring Web-Based
Authentication."
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