[jcifs] Linux and Windows

[Michael B.Allen]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:59:29 +0000
eglass1 at attbi.com wrote:

> > Also the below describes a patch that implements some kind of Windows
> > passwordless authentication however it's not clear to me what it does
> > exactly:
> > 
> >   http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159015
> 
> This uses the Microsoft SSPI libraries, so it is a Windows-only fix (basically,
> rather than implementing the client side of NTLM, they just pass the tokens to
> the native APIs).  This approach was probably taken for simplicity's sake.
> There is an NTLM HTTP client in the Jakarta Commons which contains an open
> source Java implementation; it would be interesting to examine that further.
> I'm not at all familiar with the Mozilla codebase, but it would at least seem
> feasible to try incorporating this logic into Mozilla and give NTLM to the
> non-Wintel world.

I think the cross-disciplinary nature of the problem is the culprit. It
has something to do with issuing multiple requests/responses over the
same session. You recall we had a tough time with maintaining state
across negotiation requests as well.

Mike

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