Okay, seems like I missed something and now I understand :) I should read further before the knee jerk reaction.
I have just got my friend to try connecting to out intranet web server with Safari and it does not support NTLM authentication. The only two web clients on the platform that do suppor it are Mozilla variety and Internet Explorer. Though I can't confirm whether they use the user's logged in credentials, since he logs in to his portable with local authentication and then connects to the servers on a case by case basis. As for 'JDK with HttpUrlConnection' I have not yet tested this. It may turn out to be a Windowss only solution. Thinking about it, I believe the ideal solution would be to create an authentication factory, which would return an instance of an 'authenticator' (my made up name), based on specified name. This would allow us to have the flexibility of either returning a pure Java instance of an implementation (if possible) or one that has a native implementation. If an authenticator could not initialise itself for the given platform or environment, then an Exception would be thrown. How does this sound? - note: 2min design process regards Andre -----Original Message----- From: Roland Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 2:14 AM To: Commons HttpClient Project Subject: RE: NTLM authentication to an MS Exchange web page account using HTTP Client V2.0 Hello Andre-John, > The only issue I would have of using a JNI solution, is that it would > work on MS-Windows, but break everywhere else. Being a client, we need > to have the flexibility to work no matter the platform. I have a > collegue > who has PowerBook which he uses on our Windows network, so this is such > a user a JNI solution would lock out. > > [...snipped Adrian's note about a JNI implementation...] > > On 24/06/2004, at 2:31 AM, Steve Johnson wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Thanks again Adrian, very helpful. > > > > The NTCredentials API shows that the user, password, host, and domain > > can be set. Is it possible to use the logged-in users credentials? > > This way it would allow a user to be authenticated without > > reentering user/pw. > > > > Thanks for the help, > > Steve > > Since the question about using the credentials of the OS user pops up every few months, could you (or rather your colleague) tell us whether that feature is available on the Mac platform at all? More precisely, does - IE for Mac - Safari - JDK with HttpUrlConnection use the logged-in user's credentials to automatically authenticate against an HTTP server with NTLM? If the latter is true, there still might be a platform-independent class somewhere in sun.* or com.sun.*. If not, we would at least know that it is a Windows-only or IE-only feature in the first place, which can not be expected to be provided by Java in a cross-platform manner. cheers and thanks, Roland --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
