Manage Your Authentication Records

Authentication to HTML forms is optional. These authentication techniques are supported: HTTP Basic server-based authentication and simple form authentication. One or more authentication records may be added to a web application to support authentication. Each record provides credentials (user name and password) to be used for authentication when the scan encounters a login form.

When authentication is enabled for a web application, the crawler attempts authentication the first time the web crawler encounters a login form. Upon success the crawler visits the form action link, gathers information for analysis and continues crawling.

How-To's

Go to Account > Web Applications and click the edit icon for a web application. Scroll down to the Authentication Records list. (If no records are defined for the web application, the list is empty.)

Add a record

Click the Add button to the right of the Authentication Records list and enter the authentication record settings and then click Save.

Edit a record

Click the edit icon , enter the authentication records settings and then click Save.

Delete a record

Click the delete icon .

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