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HTML Forms Authentication Templates

The templates for forms authentication are text files that use an extended version of HTML. These files are referred to as .fcc files.

The default extension for .fcc files used in an HTML Forms authentication scheme is .fcc. However, you can use a different extension:

• For Apache Web servers, configure your Web server to use the extension you want.

  Note: More information exists in the Web Agent Installation Guide.

• For Domino or IIS Web servers, specify the extension that you want in the FCCExtensions parameter of your Web Agent configuration file or object.

  Note: For more information about Web Agent configuration parameters, see the Web Agent Configuration Guide.

The Web Agent includes sample English, French and Japanese .fcc files, which you can customize. These files are located in the following directories:

By default, the product uses the English .fcc files.

To use the sample .fcc files, create a form authentication scheme that specifies the appropriate target directory.

Secure HTML Forms Authentication Templates

Secure versions of the HTML forms authentication templates are also available. The secure HTML forms authentication templates differ from the standard versions in the following ways:

• Secure versions do not display the username in returned messages
• Secure versions include a Logout hyperlink in the top right side corner of the form template which logs out the user and redirects them to the custom logoff page
• Autocomplete is turned off for all text fields in secure versions

The secure template files are located in the following directories:

• Windows: webagent\secureforms
• UNIX: webagent/secureforms

To use the secure versions of the HTML forms authentication templates, copy the files from the secureforms directory to the following location, replacing the standard versions there:

• Windows: webagent\samples\forms
• UNIX: webagent/samples/forms

Note: Localized versions of the secure HTML forms authentication templates are not available; only English language versions are supplied.