Kerberos-based HTTP authentication support planed?

Manlio Perillo manlio_perillo at libero.it
Fri Mar 28 17:17:52 CDT 2008


Ezra.Smith at bentley.com ha scritto:
>> This is not a problem caused by the lack of persistent connections.
> 
> It is and it isn't.
> 
> It is, because NTLM actually _requires_ a persistent connection to
> maintain state information about the handshake. HTTP Digest doesn't
> require that, but NTLM most certainly does.
> 

Sure this is strange.
Even HTTPS should works without a persistent connection.

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Manlio Perillo


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