On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08.02, jonathan soong wrote: > I was wondering, in general, do proxies always support Basic, and > sometimes support NTLM?
Basic is part of the HTTP standard and is usually supported by all HTTP related software. NTLM is a Microsoft invention, violating important aspects of the HTTP standard in the process.. (as expected given their track record of actually reading RFCs while implementing new features..). Because of the violations to HTTP the NTLM authentication scheme can not be proxied by HTTP compliant proxies. > Or can you get pure NTLM-only proxies? Most proxies supporting NTLM authentication can be configured to use NTLM authenticaiton only. This will however completely lock your users to using Microsoft browsers only and only on Microsoft OS:es and (well.. this said, some other browsers start to implement rudimentatry support for NTLM to interoperate with broken servers only supporting NTLM). And forget about trying to use another Java engine than the Microsoft "looks like Java" engine.. Regards Henrik -- Donations welcome if you consider my Free Squid support helpful. https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=hno%40squid-cache.org If you need commercial Squid support or cost effective Squid or firewall appliances please refer to MARA Systems AB, Sweden http://www.marasystems.com/, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
