Re: Status of NTLM support

From: Herbert Pfennig <hpfennig_at_ironport.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:38:41 -0700

On 2006.10.26 19:57:52 +0000, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> If the situation has not changed (i.e., nobody has the code that can be
> publicly released with Polygraph), and you really need it, we will have
> to develop it. My understanding is that the implementation is rather
> tricky because NTLM authentication is not officially documented and
> because it violates a few HTTP norms.
>
> FWIW, Squid and possibly other open-source serves have implemented the
> server side of the NTLM authentication algorithm.

Thanks for the update. I am going to see if some developers in house can tackle
this problem. If we achieve a solution, I will try and advocate to share this
code.

~~hp
Received on Fri Oct 27 2006 - 14:31:02 MDT

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