234 Enterprise Business Portals with IBM Tivoli Access Manager
10.5.6 Trust Association Interceptor (TAI)
The Trust Association Interceptor method is used to provide single sign-on to the
WebSphere-based applications that are protected in Access Manager’s secure
domain.
Trust Association Interceptor mode is achieved by placing WebSEAL at the front
end as a reverse proxy server. From WebSEAL's management perspective, a
junction is created with WebSEAL on one end, and the WebSphere's Web server
on the other end. A request for a Web resource, stored in WebSphere's protected
domain, is submitted to WebSEAL, where it is authenticated against WebSEAL's
security realm. If the requesting user has access to the junction, the HTTP
request is transmit ...