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Firewall Friendly External Captive Portal Flow of Events
Typically, the third-party server is on the other side of a firewall from Extreme Campus Controller.
Integrating with a third-party server through a firewall is illustrated in Figure 35 on page 92. The main
participants in the deployment scenario are:
The client being authenticated (‘user’).
The Extreme Campus Controller that manages the AP that the user is communicating through.
The firewall between the user and Extreme Campus Controller on one side and the ECP on the other.
The ECP that performs the actual authentication.
Figure 35: Firewall Friendly ECP Event Flow with Extreme Campus Controller
FF-ECP on Extreme Campus Controller
The following numbered list corresponds to the numbers illustrated in Figure 35 on page 92.
1.0 - When the user sends HTTP trac, Extreme Campus Controller spoofs the destination web server.
1.1 - Trac is redirected to the ECP. Extreme Campus Controller tells the client's browser that the
resource it is requesting has temporarily been moved to another server (the ECP) .
Firewall Friendly External Captive Portal Flow of Events
External Captive Portal on a Third-Party Server
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