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Authentication policies

Using authentication policies, you can provide basic or form-based reverse-proxy authentication for your web servers. You can also use them to control access to the paths specified in firewall rules. The firewall supports basic HTTP authentication as described in RFC 7617. Authentication policies specify an authentication method and users.