Re: HTTP probe with 401 NTLM-based HTTP authentication

Surya ARBY <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:45:55 +0000 (GMT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.load-balancing.general
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Hello Tal.

Currently in the KB it mentions only basic HTTP auth. (CTX116996 and CTX117142 )

If NTLM authentication is on the radar it's great (my request is not urgent) but I wonder why it would not be possible to be able to put this kind of parameters into an HTTP-ECV or HTTP probe (natively and not via a perl script running in user space of the memory).

regards,

Surya


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--- En date de : Mar 28.7.09, Tal Klein <[email protected]> a écrit :

De: Tal Klein <[email protected]>
Objet: Re: [load balancing] HTTP probe with 401 NTLM-based HTTP authentication
À: "Load Balancing Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Date: Mardi 28 Juillet 2009, 16h10


 
 

Hi Surya,
 
Just FYI - We have a magical perl script that can do this for you on the NetScalers. It's currently being entered into the support knowledge base, but if you need it now just contact support and mention this thread.
 I've given them a heads up you'd be calling.
 
Thanks,
Tal
 
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Tal M. KLein
Integrated Product Strategy
Citrix Systems, Inc.
 


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Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 9:52 AM

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Subject: [load balancing] HTTP probe with 401 NTLM-based HTTP authentication









Hello the ML.



I have to configure a cluster of NetScalers (but the question is open to other vendors also ;-) ) to load balance HTTP-based Sharepoint web servers, and it uses an NTLM challenged-based user authentication.



I can solve the problem with basic http auth. by sending an additionnal header with the login:password pair encoded in base-64, but what about using the challenge in NTLM mechanism ?



Does anyone know if any load balancer on the market is able to send HTTP probe when using NTLM auth on the back end servers ?



Otherwise I'll have to ask dev. to create a specific page available without any authentication.



regards,



Surya



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