The present invention matches sets of authentication, authorization, and
auditing rules to resources in an Access System based on the contents of
POST data received in HTTP POST requests. The system of the present
invention receives a POST request and matches a set of rules to a
resource using POST data referenced by the HTTP request. In one
embodiment, the matching is performed by accessing required matching
data. A portion of the POST data is selected and compared with the
required data. If all of the required data is matched to the POST data,
then the resource is successfully matched. The present invention further
authorizes a user to access resources in an Access System based on the
contents of POST data. An authorization rule is retrieved and
authorization is performed using the POST data. If the authorization is
successful, the system grants the user access to the resource.