Hi everyone; we had a need to authenticate using NTLM with the default
credentials of the logged-in user, and unfortunately the HttpClient.Auth.NTLM
module is expecting credentials to be supplied in username / password form --
so we built a version of NTLM that uses JNI through the Neon libraries to get
the default credentials (avoids someone having to type in their username and
password if they're already logged in). NTLM has about a five line
modification, and there's a DLL (built from Neon mainly, with some JNI shim
code) that provides the native methods.
I'm not sure if this is of any use to anyone (certainly only works on Win32
platforms), but it was sure handy for us. Is there a place for it in the
project? BTW, it also can take domain\username and a password (if the
logged-in-user's credentials are not good enough) and generates the NTLM
credentials in whatever form was negotiated with the server. Again, that
portion only works on Win32 platforms.
Where would this find a home?
PS. We found that HttpClient RC 3 (w/o the JNI provided credentials) provides
difficulty for the 1.1.11 version of JCIFS, we're going to try the 1.2.1 real
soon now.
Thanks,
Brian Moran
Centeris Corporation
