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Oleg Kalnichevski commented on HTTPCLIENT-917:
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I am not a patent lawyer, so whatever I have to say on the matter has no
bearing of what so ever. The only group of people that can make definitive
statements on the matter is the ASF legal committee. If they decide it is okay
to use algorithms in the ASF code that may _potentially_ be covered by patents
held by Microsoft, the matter would be settled. However, given the fact they
have been unable to make up their mind about the use of LGPL code in ASF code
for years, I would not be holding my breath.
Welcome to the wonderful world of ASF bureaucracy.
Until this matter is decided upon by the ASF legal people I _personally_ will
not touch Microsoft specific code with a barge pole. If MetaCarta, Inc have
enough lawyers sitting around, good for you. I am just a regular guy writing
code at his spare time. A mere potential threat of a lawsuit is enough for me.
I am aware of multiple open-source implementations of the NTLM protocol.
However this is not a copyright matter, but that of intellectual property
rights. This is about a liability for the use of Microsoft IP in commercial
products, not for writing open-source code. The existence of open-source
implementations does not prove or disprove anything.
> When authentication is invalidated during redirection, proxy authentication
> also should be invalidated
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> Key: HTTPCLIENT-917
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-917
> Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: HttpClient
> Affects Versions: 3.1 Final
> Reporter: Karl Wright
> Attachments: proxy-auth-invalidate.patch
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> This was discovered during use by Lucene Connector Framework, on 3.1.
> When a document is fetched through a proxy authenticated with NTLM, and
> that document is a redirection (301 or 302), the httpclient fails to
> properly use the right proxy credentials on the subsequent document
> fetch. This leads to 407 errors on these kinds of documents.
> I've attached a proposed patch.
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