Re: Minor issue with AuthenNTLM

"William A. Rowe Jr." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-perl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 3/30/2012 1:56 AM, Dami Laurent (PJ) wrote:
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : André Warnier [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>
>>> I was considering forking the module and fixing bugs like these, but I
>>> am not quite sure how much sense that makes given the fact that NTLM is
>>> deprecated technology.
>>>
>> Huh ? Who said that ?  To my knowledge, 99% of large corporations use NTLM
>> (Windows Domain
>> Authentication) as their basic AAA mechanism.

Well, NTLM was DoA.  It is isn't HTTP compatible (0.9, 1.0 or 1.1).  HTTP is stateless, MS
NTLM presumes a stateful connection.

> For the future, the way to go is Kerberos; this is what Microsoft is pushing in replacement for NTLM. 

Bingo.
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