Use the /web_gateway_authentication endpoint to configure tha banner on the login screen before web gateway authentication in order to make users aware of being audited before logging in, or that they are accessing a government website, and so on.

URL

PUT https://<IP-address-of-SPS>/api/configuration/management/web_gateway_authentication

Cookies

Cookie name	Description	Required	Values
session_id	Contains the authentication token of the user	Required	The value of the session ID cookie received from the REST server in the authentication response, for example, a1f71d030e657634730b9e887cb59a5e56162860. For more information on authentication, see Authenticate to the SPS REST API. NOTE: This session ID refers to the connection between the REST client and the SPS REST API. It is not related to the sessions that SPS records (and which also have a session ID, but in a different format).

Operations with the /web_gateway_authentication endpoint include:

Operation	HTTP method	URL
Configuring the web gateway authentication banner	PUT	/api/configure/management/web_gateway_authentication
Querying the web gateway authentication banner	GET	/api/configure/management/web_gateway_authentication

Sample request

The following command configures the web gateway authentication banner.

curl --cookie cookies https://<IP-address-of-SPS>/api/configuration/management/web_gateway_authentication

Response

The following is a sample response when the configured web gateway authentication banner is queried.

For more information on the meta object, see Message format.

{
      "key": "web_gateway_authentication",
      "body": {
        "auto_assign": false,
        "banner": {
          "enabled": true,
          "text": "Web gateway\nBANNER"
        }
      }
    }

Elements of the response message body include:

Element	Type	Description
key	string	Top level element, contains the ID of the endpoint.
body	object	Top level element.
body.auto_assign	boolean	Enable auto-assign to permit your users to authenticate on the SPS web interface once, and open sessions without repeating the gateway authentication.
body.banner	object	Top level element.
body.banner.enabled	boolean	Shows whether the banner is enabled or not.
body.banner.text	string	The text of the banner.

Status and error codes

The following table lists the typical status and error codes for this request. For a complete list of error codes, see Application level error codes.

Code	Description	Notes
400	InvalidRequestBody	The request body sent by the user has an invalid format. This may be an error with the encoding or the body is not a properly encoded JSON value.
400	SemanticError	The configuration contains semantic errors, inconsistencies or other problems that would put the system into an unreliable state if the configuration had been applied. The details section contains the errors that were found in the configuration.
401	Unauthenticated	The requested resource cannot be retrieved because the client is not authenticated and the resource requires authorization to access it. The details section contains the path that was attempted to be accessed, but could not be retrieved.
403	Unauthorized	The requested resource cannot be retrieved because the client is not authorized to access it. The details section contains the path that was attempted to be accessed, but could not be retrieved.