Re: Windows Challenge and Response Protocal

Actually, NTLM is now implemented cross platform (1.6 and later):
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.6/README.html#new


Jerry Talkington wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 06:24:35AM +0000, Mark Nobles wrote:
> 
>>There is a web page I need to be able to access for one of my classes.
>>According to my teacher, it is protected by the "Windows Challenge and
>>Response Protocal." Using Mozilla 1.4 for Win, others in the class have
>>had no trouble reading it. I have tried it with Mozilla 1.4 for Mac OS
>>X, and Moz 1.5?, Camino, Firebird and Netscape 7.0. No challenge, I am
>>sent immediately to the "Not Authorized" page.
> 
> 
> NTLM is currently only supported on Windows.  Since it's basically
> Windows authentication fudged to work over HTTP, it's not trivial to
> implement on other platforms (it's actually easier to implement in a
> server than in a client.)
> 
> Have you tried IE on the Mac?  I'd actually be suprised if it worked,
> but it might be worth a try.
> 
> 
>>Using iCab set to identify itself as IE, I get the challenge, but the
>>server will not accept the response. Setting it to identify itself as
>>Moz gets the immediate "Not Authorized" with no challenge.
>>
>>With OmniWeb, no matter how I set it to identify itself, I do not get
>>the challenge, but am immediately "Not Authorized".
> 
> 
> It doesn't matter what the UA is set to, if the browser doesn't
> understand the protocol that the server says to use, you just get
> unauthorized.
>  
> 
>>But the important thing was that the Win users are able to use Mozilla
>>to get the page and I'm not. Is there some setting I am missing, or is
>>this capability missing from the Mac version? How can I use it or help
>>get it added?
> 
> 
> You could write the client code ;)  Actually, I'm not sure what the
> legality of adding pure GPL code is with NPL, but the Samba folks have
> already done the work on getting it working on other platforms.
>