Service provider initiated Access Gateway flow

Requests can be initiated to a service provider or using an Okta tenant. This diagram represent an Service provider initiated flow.

Flow through Access Gateway initiated by IDP
Step

Description

1

User requests application access.

2 Access Gateway intercepts request and
redirects to Okta for SAML assertion.
3 User (browser) sends SAML AuthN Request to Okta,
logs into Okta following Okta policies.
4 On success, Okta Generates a SAML assertion for Access Gateway.
5 User (browser) presents SAML assertion to Access Gateway.

6

Access Gateway forwards request to protected web resource.

7

Protected web resource receives request, and returns response to Access Gateway

8

Access Gateway performs any required rewrites and returns response.

Related topics

Reference architectures

DNS use

High availability

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