Support Article
Images not displayed on login screen launched through LDAP URL
SA-4718
Summary
User has enabled LDAP authentication and when they try to launch login screen through LDAP URL, Pega 7 Image is not displayed on the screen.
Error Messages
N/A
Steps to Reproduce
Step-1: Configure LDAP authentication.
Step-2: Login to PRPC application using LDAP URL.
Root Cause
When using the standard PRServlet to connect, this rebuilds the URL to include the unauthenticated Access Group Hash.
Such as: http://<server>:<port>/prweb/PRServlet/oO9O9iMscyJc_fy6LnBDXO9xEtRpDxfL3At36r8Aw8k%5B*/!STANDARD?
However, when using LDAP authentication the URL remains as-is: http://<server>:<port>/prweb/PRWebLDAP. This subsequently causes the browser to build the GET requests for the images without the Access Group Hash, which causes the retrieval of the images to fail.
Resolution
Configuring “prconfig /Authentication/RedirectGuests” to “true” addresses this issue. Below is brief description about ‘RedirectGuests’:
| RedirectGuests Type: boolean Default: True Functionality: Process Commander sends information between the server and the client (browser) using URLs. These URLs can contain “query strings” which display calls to activities in the system or output streams of data. Example: /pr3web/PRServlet/PCKVSeY1NqMu72E9CQuRw%5B%5B*/!Developer?pyActivity==ShowStream&pyBasePage=pyPortal&pyTargetStream=FramesetDeveloper HTTP/1.1 PegaRULES typically redirects guests to the standard URL format above in preparation for interactive authentication. Not all authentication schemes require this; if your authentication scheme doesn’t require interaction, set this entry to false to reduce network traffic. NOTE: If the initialization setting NodeType is set to “web”, the default of the RedirectGuests setting changes to false. What this means is that the setting must be set to "true" and then everything should work just fine. Please confirm when you can make this setting change, restart the node and test it again. |
Published January 31, 2016 - Updated October 8, 2020
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