Setting up Trados GroupShare behind WebSeal proxy server

Article Number:000013501 | Last Updated:5/17/2021 4:14 PM

Scope/Environment

Trados GroupShare 2020

Symptoms/Context

You want to hide/set Trados Groupshare application server behind transparent proxy – WebSeal.

Resolution

If Groupshare services hosting the RestAPI endpoints is missing authorization, then it will fail.

There is no setting that you can configure for running behind a proxy, as Groupshare does not need to know it's behind a proxy. This needs to be configured from the proxy, either to not remove specific headers or to re-add it.

For more information please check the WebSeal documentation:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSPREK_9.0.6/com.ibm.isam.doc/wrp_config/concept/con_http_transforms.html.

As noted there "WebSEAL administrators can configure the following modifications. You can apply these transformations to HTTP requests and HTTP responses (except where otherwise noted):

Add a header
Remove a header
Modify an existing header"

Root Cause

Groupshare backend services hosting Rest API endpoints require the Authorization header to be set. Most of the times this is the only required header.

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