SkipAuthenticationForRoutingInformation Property of the IFPCEEWebProxy Interface

The SkipAuthenticationForRoutingInformation property gets or sets a Boolean value that indicates whether the Forefront TMG Web proxy will skip the authentication process for requests for routing information.

HRESULT put_SkipAuthenticationForRoutingInformation(
	VARIANT_BOOL fSkipAuthentication
);
HRESULT get_SkipAuthenticationForRoutingInformation(
	VARIANT_BOOL* pfSkipAuthentication
);

Property SkipAuthenticationForRoutingInformation As Boolean

Sub SkipAuthenticationForRoutingRequests()
	' Declare the objects needed.
	Dim root		 ' The FPCLib.FPC root object
	Dim tmgArray	 ' An FPCArray object
	Dim webProxy	 ' An FPCWebProxy object
	' Create the root object.
	Set root = CreateObject("FPC.Root")
	' Get references to the array object
	' and the Web proxy object. 
	Set tmgArray = root.GetContainingArray()
	Set webProxy = tmgArray.ArrayPolicy.WebProxy
	' Configure the Web proxy to skip the authentication process for
	' requests for routing information. 
	webProxy.SkipAuthenticationForRoutingInformation = True
	' Save the new setting with the fResetRequiredServices parameter set
	' to True so that the Firewall service will be restarted and the change
	' will take effect.
	WScript.Echo "Saving the configuration..."
	webProxy.Save True
	WScript.Echo "Done!" 
End Sub
SkipAuthenticationForRoutingRequests

Remarks

This property is read/write. Its default value is False (VARIANT_FALSE in C++).

By default, when the AlwaysAuthenticate property of the FPCWebListenerProperties object for a protected network, such as the Internal network, requires all users to authenticate, all HTTP GET requests, including WSPAD requests (HTTP GET requests for http://address:port/wspad.dat), from Firewall clients in the protected network will require authentication, regardless of the actual port assignment. However, Firewall Client does not support HTTP authentication, regardless of the authentication method selected (such as Basic authentication or Integrated authentication) and cannot react appropriately to the 401 Unauthorized response that Forefront TMG generates. Therefore, when a Firewall client tries to retrieve the Wspad.dat file during automatic discovery, the Forefront TMG computer will not forward the request to the WPAD server. When the SkipAuthenticationForRoutingInformation property is set to True (VARIANT_TRUE in C++), the Web proxy skips the authentication process for WSPAD requests.

After the value of this property has been modified, the change must be written to persistent storage by calling the Save method, and the Microsoft Firewall service must be restarted for the change to take effect. For more information about restarting the Firewall service to apply changes, see Restarting Services After Configuration Changes.

This property cannot be accessed through Forefront TMG Management.

Requirements

See Also

FPCWebProxy

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Build date: 11/30/2009