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Todd_90577
Mar 07, 2012Nimbostratus
Portal Access doesn't SSO to Exchange 2010 OWA
I'm running Big-IP v11 and licensed for APM and I'm trying to load balance Exchange 2010 OWA. When I login to the F5 forms-based Portal Access site, it redirects me to OWA, but I get prompted to logi...
Michael_Koyfma1
Mar 09, 2012Cirrus
Todd,
I hope you don't mind if I take this opportunity to correct a somewhat common misconception. It is true that for Basic auth credentials are passed in cleartext. However, forms-based auth is also being transmitted in clear. What's securing both Basic auth and forms-based auth is the SSL layer - encryption of the POST parameters in SSL and Basic Auth credentials are equivalent to each other in terms of security of the transmitted password. NTLM is obviously a different animal, as the password never crosses the wire.
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