Patent ID: 8925050

Claim:
A method for providing authentication information to a user, the method comprising: receiving, by a single-point authentication manager executed by a computer system, a request to access a resource from a remote client computer system, wherein: the single-point authentication manager manages access to a plurality of resources including the resource; and the single-point authentication manager communicates with an authentication plug-in application that performs a type of authentication; performing, by the authentication plug-in application, authentication of the user; in response to performing authentication of the user, creating, by the authentication plug-in application, a message to be transmitted to the remote client computer system, the message comprising: an indication that the message is to be passed to the remote client computer system; and information regarding the authentication of the user; determining, by the authentication plug-in application, a credential collector is in communication with the single-point authentication manager from within a single domain; and in response to receiving the message from the authentication plug-in application and based on determining the credential collector is communicating with the single-point authentication manager from within the single domain, transmitting the message to the remote client computer system via the credential collector using an http forward operation.