iTP Secure WebServer System Administrator's Guide (iTPWebSvr 6.0+)

Administering Session Identifiers for Anonymous
Sessions
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Configuring for Anonymous Ticketing
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Tickets work with most web clients; however, the web client itself does not know
that it is sending requests that contain tickets.
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The process is transparent to users.
Configuring for Anonymous Ticketing
This section describes how to configure the iTP Secure WebServer to support
anonymous ticketing. You can activate ticketing for specific regions of content to track
the use of some file types while ignoring others. For example, you may want to track
accesses of HTML files, but not GIF files.
To set up a content server for anonymous ticketing, configure the server with
configuration directives and Region commands in the server configuration file
(httpd.config). Some directives and commands are required and others are optional.
This section discusses the required settings. Advanced Configuration Options on
page 11-6 describes the optional settings. For more general information about the
server configuration file (httpd.config), see Appendix A, Configuration Directives.
To configure for anonymous ticketing, follow these steps:
1. Enable Session Identifiers with the SI_Enable directive.
2. Enable anonymous ticketing with the SI_Department directive.
3. Initialize the department with the SI_Default directive.
4. Activate ticketing for one or more regions with the SI_RequestSI command in the
Region directive.
Enabling Session Identifiers
By default, the iTP Secure WebServer does not use Session Identifiers. You must
explicitly enable Session Identifiers by using the SI_Enable directive in the
configuration file as follows:
SI_Enable Yes
When the SI_Enable directive is set to No, any Session Identifier encountered in a
URL is treated as part of the URL.
For further information about the SI_Enable directive, see SI_Enable on page A-70.
Enabling Anonymous Ticketing
After enabling ticketing, you also must enable anonymous ticketing by using the
SI_Default directive and the -EnableAnonymousTicketing attribute. For
example:
SI_Default -EnableAnonymousTicketing {0}