Question about host identifier definition

Hi,
I've created a webgate and define the "Preferred HTTP Host" as the hostname where the web app is deployed. It seems ok that the webgate will protect the URL containing the hostname. But after I've authenticated, when I change the hostname to the IP address directly in the same explorer and request the resource again, it will ask me to re-authenticate. In my expectation, I don't need to re-authenticate....
Is there anything wrong with my host identifiers defintion? I've already added the corresponding IP address into the host identifier list.
Please help to give me some advice, thanks.

Hi,
The host identifiers are OK, this is happening because the web server first sets the cookie for the servername, and does not accept it for the n.n.n.n name - effectively you are using different domains (from a cookie perspective), even though it is the same web server. To solve it, you could just put the server name in the Challenge Redirect parameter in the authentication scheme to
http://servername.mydomain.com
and then OAM will set the cookies as necessary, exactly the same as configuring OAM for multi-domain SSO.
Regards,
Colin

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