a2c Exchange (the new exam board exchange)

[skell]

Hi @ralpha

 

Could you elaborate on what SW settings required tweaking?

 

Thanks

 

skell

[le4ne]

Hi Skell

 

There is an article on the smoothwall support website named 'Known applications which don't support NTLM Authentication' which discusses a2c among other things.

 

Essentially you need to allow the following URLs:

a2c.cambridgeassessment.org.uk

a2c.pearson.com

a2c.wjec.co.uk

a2c.aqa.org.uk

a2c.ccea.org.uk

a2cssl.cityandguilds.com

a2c.avcosystems.co.uk

I added the URLs to the authentication exclusion list, and then into a staff allow list so that our staff could successfully download/upload any files from the exam boards.

My staff allow list is also set so that any https content is not inspected (the content is trusted already and has been specifically added to an allow list, so why bother?!).

 

So far (fingers crossed, touch wood, sacrifice a keyboard to the IT Gods) there's been no problems using a2c.

 

Hope this helps!

Leane