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Use a Relative Target for Credential Collector Redirects

You can instruct the Web Agent to use a relative URI instead of an fully qualified URL when directing requests to a credential collector and target resource. Using a relative URI prevents requests from being processed by credential collectors on other systems installed with Web Agents.

Note: This setting applies to all credential collectors except the cookie credential collector (CCC). The CCC must use a fully-qualified domain name for this parameter. OnAuthAccept responses will not work properly with a CCC if a relative URI is used.

Typically, a fully qualified URL is appended to the credential collector URL. For example:

url?A=1&Target=http://www.nete.com/index.html.

To use only a relative URI, set the TargetAsRelativeURI parameter to yes. If set to yes, the target parameter appended to the credential collector URL is a relative target, such as url?A=1&Target=/index.html. In turn, when the credential collector redirects back to the Web Agent protecting the target resource, it is a relative redirect. Also, the Web Agent rejects any target that does not begin with a forward slash (/).

The default value for this parameter is no, so a fully qualified URL is always used.