Cloud Streaming Authentication - Is it possible to add more than one proxy?

Summary

In short, the answer is yes with certain caveats: 

• Your streaming portal will only support automatic re-direct to one proxy.
• A second proxy is allowed so long as -
  • The IP address for that second proxy is whitelisted at your portal.
  • The link to that proxy service is created and managed manually.

Primary Proxy

So here is how the streaming portal typically works:

• A visitor arrives at your streaming portal
• The visitor's IP address is checked against the portal's IP whitelist.
  • If the visitor's IP address is in the whitelist -
    • Then the visitor is granted access to the portal with no need to authenticate.
  • If the visitor's IP address is not in the whitelist -
    • The visitor is directed to the primary proxy automatically.
    • If the visitor successfully authenticates at the proxy, then -
    • They are directed back to the portal (via the proxy).
    • Since the proxy's IP address is whitelisted, the visitor is granted access to the DC portal.

Secondary Proxy

In a scenario where a customer is using more than one proxy, the process would work in the exact same way, but with an additional variation.

• Visitors who go directly to the streaming portal work exactly as described above.
• Visitors can go to a manually crafted link on a page hosted by your school or library.
  • For example - https://proxy.schoolname.edu/login?url=https://digitalcampus.swankmp.net/tenant1234
    • Note this example is not a working link, but is showing that your secondary proxy would make up the first part of the link and the Swank streaming portal URL as the second part.
  • Because this manually crafted link specifies the secondary proxy, students will bypass the automatic proxy redirect at the streaming portal itself
  • If the user authenticates at this (secondary) proxy successfully, they will be directed back to the streaming portal (via that proxy).
  • So long as the proxy's IP address is in the IP range whitelist, the user will be granted access.