Does Squeak support NTLM authentication

Mike me at mikehogan.net
Tue Jun 7 12:53:11 UTC 2005


Hi John,

Its the proxy that requires NTLM auth.  What do you reckon I need 
to do?

Seems that I dropped off the squeak-dev list last time round, so 
adding it back in this time.

Take care,
Mike.

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On Tue Jun 07 05:24:17 PDT 2005, John Pierce 
<john.raymond.pierce at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it makes sense. I've been doing a lot of proxying 
> recently, so I am just trying to clarify your requirements. Is it 
> the proxy that requires NTLM or is it the proxy endpoint the 
> requires NTLM auth? So if it is the former that you need to setup 
> then I'd say it should be tractable. If it is the latter, I'd say 
> good luck and let me know what you discover because I failed 
> miserably at the latter after many attempts (although not to 
> discourage you from trying yourself).
> 
> John
> 
> On 6/7/05, Mike <me at mikehogan.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi John, I am talking about making an outbound http connection
>> through a proxy that requires ntlm authentication. Does that mak
>> e sense?
>> 
>> Thanks John.
>> 
>> Take care,
>> Mike.
>> 
>> Receive and share.
>> 
>> On Tue Jun 07 04:26:58 PDT 2005, John Pierce
>> <john.raymond.pierce at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi Mike,
>> >
>> > On 6/7/05, Mike <me at mikehogan.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> Subject says it really - is there any way I can use an NTLM
>> >> driven
>> >> http proxy server with squeak?
>> >
>> >
>> > What do you mean by NTLM driven proxy server? If you are 
>> talking
>> > about using Seaside or some web framework for Squeak to collect
>> > the User ID / Password (form-based) then authenticate the user 
>> to
>> > an AD controller, then yes, this is possible. If you also mean 
>> to
>> > build a plain jane forward and/or reverse proxy server to 
>> access
>> > resources that are accessible either anonymously and/or using
>> > basic auth, then yes this seems doable.
>> >
>> > If you are asking about using squeak to authenticate the user
>> > using a strict NT challenge and response protocol and then 
>> cache
>> > the user's authentication token on the Squeak server and
>> > impersonate the user to backend NTLM-based web servers, then I
>> > think you have a lot of work ahead of you. I can't even get
>> > Apache with mod_proxy to do this.
>> >
>> > Let me know more details and I might be able to provide a
>> > pointer.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -- It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very very hard to
>> > have a simple idea. -- Carver Mead
>> >
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very very hard to 
> have a simple idea. -- Carver Mead
> 


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