Implementation Guide › Performance Tuning › Web Tier Performance › Reduce Traffic between Your Web Agents and the Policy Server › Other Parameters That Affect Web Agent Performance › Ignore URL Parameter

Ignore URL Parameter

If you want to leave the resources in certain subdirectories unprotected, you can configure the Web Agent to ignore certain uniform resource identifiers (URI).

For example, if each of your web servers has a subdirectory named pictures, and you want to leave those directories on protected, you can set the IgnoreURL parameter in your Web Agent configuration.

Performance improves because the Web Agent does not make the following calls to the Policy Server:

• IsProtected
• IsAuthenticated
• IsAuthorized
• Login

Requests for the associated resources are passed directly to the web server and the user is granted access.