Institutions typically use different ways (Shibboleth, LDAP, etc.) to authenticate users. It is difficult to achieve a one-size-fits-all deployment to address all the different authentication is done in OLE. This bottleneck can be cleared by using a reverse proxy.

Reverse Proxy

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A reverse proxy server is a specialized web server that inspects incoming requests and forwards them to another internal web server after any local processing is completed. It also inspects and makes sure that any response from the internal web server containing URLs are updated with the proper host address.

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