Administration Guide › Configuring the SPS Server Settings › Virtual Host Settings in the server.conf File › Web Agent Settings for the Default Virtual Host › Setting the requirecookies Parameter

Setting the requirecookies Parameter

The requirecookies setting in the server.conf file is a special Web Agent setting that is useful only if basic authentication was set during the Policy Server configuration. This setting instructs the agent to require either an SMSESSION or an SMCHALLENGE cookie to process HTTP requests successfully, including basic Authorization headers.

If you configure the embedded Web Agent to require cookies, the browser must accept HTTP cookies. If the browser does not, the user receives an error message from the Agent denying them access to all protected resources.

Set the requirecookies setting to yes when all user agent types for the associated virtual server use the default session scheme. If an agent type uses a cookieless session scheme, set the requirecookies parameter to no.