[jcifs] Linux and Windows

[Tyrrell, James]

Eric,

That would be great and something that I think this great package needs.  We
all live in this corporate world where windows is everywhere, but I hate to
tie something so completely to windows and IE that nothing else works and in
fact sometimes when I hit the server it appears to lock up if I get at it
(the site) from a browser that is not supported.  I have not really gotten
that nailed down just yet.

Thank You
Jim Tyrrell


-----Original Message-----
From: Glass, Eric [mailto:eric.glass at capitalone.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 1:00 PM
To: 'Tyrrell, James'; 'jcifs at samba.org'
Subject: RE: [jcifs] Linux and Windows


I submitted a patch a very long time ago to enable HTTP-Basic authentication
as well as NTLM; this was against 0.7.0b4 or something, though, so a lot of
changes have been made since then.  Basically, if their browser doesn't
support NTLM authentication (Netscape, etc.), this prompts them for a
username and password which are then authenticated against the domain.  If I
get a chance, I'll work up something similar against the current codebase.

Eric


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tyrrell, James [mailto:JTyrrell at AEGONUSA.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 12:53 PM
> To: 'jcifs at samba.org'
> Subject: [jcifs] Linux and Windows
> 
> 
> Everyone,
> 
> Okay I think I got though my localhost and IP address problem with the
> latter blocking my access to the site.
> 
> Now I have a question.  The filter servlet that is running 
> seems to look for
> certain strings and if they are not found in the header then it denies
> access to the server or in other words sends a 401.  Of 
> course some of these
> strings are only set by IE, shouldn't this filter try to detect in the
> header the users browser and work as it does for IE, but 
> allow or create
> another behavior if the users browser is not IE?
> 
> I guess my question is as I create web applications I find 
> this library to
> be a godsend, however it also ties me into only having 
> Windows users.  Since
> something like this library is useful on the LAN, then I 
> would like a back
> door that my Linux and other computer users can get into my site.
> 
> Maybe I do not know enough about filtering and maybe I can 
> create a filter
> that would enable this, but I am not sure how to make that work.
> 
> Does anyone have some thoughts on this?
> 
> I hunted around for some thoughts on this and have not found any yet.
> 
> Thank You
> Jim Tyrrell
> 
> 
 
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