PingAuthorize

Preparing PingAuthorize for Konnect integration

For Kong Konnect to use PingAuthorize as an external authorization policy runtime service, you must prepare PingAuthorize to receive authorization requests from Kong Konnect.

Steps

  1. In PingAuthorize, go to Configuration → HTTP Servlet Extensions → Sideband API.

  2. In the Request Context Method list, select State.

  3. In the Shared Secret Header Name field, modify the value to CLIENT-TOKEN.

  4. Next to the Selected table for Shared Secrets, click to create a new shared secret.

  5. In the modal, create a suitably long shared secret value and click Save to PingAuthorize Server Cluster.

  6. At the top of the Edit Sideband API HTTP Servlet Extension page, click Save.

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