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Other WebSEAL functionality
WebSEAL supports an e-community single sign-on functionality that allows Web
users to perform a single sign-on and move seamlessly between WebSEAL
servers in two separate secure domains. We take a closer look at e-community
single sign-on in Chapter 7, “Access control in a distributed environment” on
page 151.
WebSEAL also supports a capability that permits failover of logged on users to
another replica in the same domain in the event that their assigned WebSEAL
server becomes unavailable. This fail-over cookie feature is also supported by
the Plug-In for Edge Server, which is discussed in 1.2.2, “Plug-In for Edge
Server” on page 20.
Architecture
The WebSEAL archite ...