Great job on working through this difficult section! You can take the fundamentals you learned here to create a really great authenticated web app.
In this chapter, you learned to use HTTPS to provide secure login from an OpenLayers app to your GeoServer-based services. You learned about the building blocks of our proxy platform, Apache HTTPD, and Tomcat, and how to configure them. Next, we covered HTTPS and TLS, and you learned how to generate certificates to enable secure requests. You learned about GeoServer's user-access permissions to permit authorized users to access the server. Finally, we tested out a secure login with curl and an OpenLayers web app.
In the next and final chapter, you will learn the final steps for putting your GeoServer-based web app into production.