[jcifs] NTLM HTTP authentication

Allen, Michael B (RSCH) Michael_B_Allen at ml.com
Thu Aug 29 09:23:37 EST 2002


I'm not sure about the basic authentication part because the passwords would be in plain
text but the NtlmPrincipal stuff looks interesting.

Thanks,
Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Glass, Eric [SMTP:eric.glass at capitalone.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 28, 2002 5:13 AM
> To:	'jcifs at lists.samba.org'
> Subject:	[jcifs] NTLM HTTP authentication
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I made the attached changes to the NTLM HTTP authentication filter -- I
> wasn't sure where to submit these, so I just decided to post them here.
> This adds the following functionality:
> 
> 1.  Permits "fallback" basic authentication; if a client is not capable of
> performing NTLM authentication (i.e., Netscape), this will allow them to
> authenticate against the domain using basic authentication.
> 
> 2.  The filter wraps the servlet request so getRemoteUser() and
> getUserPrincipal() work properly.
>  
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>  << File: NtlmHttpFilter.java >>  << File: NtlmHttpRequest.java >>  << File: NtlmPrincipal.java >> 




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