In a DAV scheme with PROPFIND or GET (PROPFIND /test/ HTTP/1.1) and Basic AUTH to a MS SharePoint over https server (AUTH required), he responds 'WWW-Authenticate: NTLM' only:
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized\r\n' header: Content-Length: 1656 header: Content-Type: text/html header: Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 header: WWW-Authenticate: NTLM header: X-Powered-By: ASP.NET header: MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 6.0.2.6568 header: Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:27:42 GMT I simply try repeatedly the same request with Basic Auth header again => The same response requesting 'header: WWW-Authenticate: NTLM' again. But then after an unsuccessful test on a really new connection (.close() , .request()) he accepts the Basic AUTH immediately. * What is this? * Is this a legal/known way to respond to a NTLM AUTH request by .close() and reconnect with Basic Auth? * Is there a Python function out there to do real NTLM authentication?.. and is this recommended to dig into Microsofty HTTP protocols ? -robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
