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Jens Geyer commented on THRIFT-889:
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> My understanding is that Facebook's Thrift library is a fork of Apache Thrift?
No. FB opensourced Thrift twice. The first one became what is now known as
Apache Thrift, the second is a later re-release of their (FBs) codebase. There
still is some exchange between the projects.
> Would it be possible to merge back Kerberos
Not sure if a simple merge will do, but yes.
> Add SPNEGO support to Thrift HTTP transport
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> Key: THRIFT-889
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-889
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Java - Library
> Reporter: Carl Steinbach
> Attachments: SPNEGO_cropped.png
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> [SPNEGO|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPNEGO] is the standard mechanism for
> Kerberos authentication over HTTP.
> Thrift should give users the option of using a Thrift HTTP client or server
> that is capable of authentication using SPNEGO/Kerberos. This will be useful
> for Hadoop which has chosen Kerberos as its standard authentication protocol,
> as well as people who need to use Kerberos authentication with Thrift based
> services running in servlet containers like Tomcat.
> References:
> * [LGPL licensed SPNEGO library for Java|http://spnego.sourceforge.net/]
> * [Glassfish Spnego project|https://spnego.dev.java.net/]
> * [SPNEGO authentication scheme for
> HTTPClient|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-523]
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