[jcifs] jcifs with HTTPS

[André Warnier]

sghosh wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I am trying to configure JCIFS with HTTPS on an oracle server.  We have been
> able to successfully configure with HTTP on the Oracle box and it works
> fine. But when we try to access with the HTTPS url the explorer page simply
> blanks out. 
> 
> When we tried to debug remotely we saw the fundamental difference: In the
> HTTPs the following happens : 
> 
> NtlmHttpFilter never ends up chaining the request. This is primarily because 
> the JCIFS is not able to authenticate and invoke NtlmPasswordAuthentication
> not sure why. 
> 
> I was looking at the code and after it invokes 
> 
> resp.setHeader( "WWW-Authenticate", "NTLM " + msg ); 
> 
> in the  NtlmSsp.NtlmPasswordAuthentication() it response seems to be getting
> lost. 
> 
> Can anyone help me underdstand what might be going on here ? Is there any
> config I am missing ? Has anyone tried JCIFS with HTTPS ? 

Hi.
You will probably never get a response, because of the message displayed in blue at the 
beginning of this page :

http://jcifs.samba.org/src/docs/ntlmhttpauth.html