3.2.8 Enabling Access Gateway to Display Post-Authentication Message

When Identity Server authentication process is completed, the user-agents are redirected to their originally requested URL. The originally requested URL is then retrieved by the proxy. This process requires SSO and authentication process of its own. As a result, retrieving the requested URL may take a long time. It is not clear how much time the authentication process takes and how much time the origin server request and authentication processes take.

To remove this ambiguity, you can enable Access Gateway to display a message before redirecting the user-agent to the originally requested URL.

To enable this enhancement, complete the following steps:

  1. Go to Devices > Access Gateways > Edit > Reverse Proxy /Authentication > ESP Global Options.

  2. Set IS_DISPLAY_AUTH_DONE_PAGE to true.

When this option is enabled, the following message is displayed before the final redirect to the requested URL:

Authentication successful, please wait while your requested page loads.

The web page that display this message is a JSP page. Location of this page is /opt/novell/nam/mag/webapps/nesp/jsp/waitredir.jsp. You can perform further customization on this page.