Single sign-on

The philosophy behind the HTTP single sign-on is to preserve user authentication to different Web Applications. Its goal is to avoid prompting the user multiple times for security credentials within a given trust domain that includes:

In a single sign-on (SSO) scenario, an HTTP Cookie is used to propagate a user's authentication information to disparate Web servers relieving the user from entering authentication information for every new client-server session (assuming basic authentication).

Attention

There are several key limitations of single sign-on when it is used with WebSphere Commerce. These limitations are:

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