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  1. Re:No NTLM, no Respect by Guy+Harris · · Score: 1 · on X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions

    You want a browser to be a file manager?

    No, he wants it to be a browser that supports NTLM Authentication for HTTP. The "LM" in "NTLM" nonwithstanding, it's used for more than just SMB.

  2. Re:Legal Ramifications Resulting From Use of NTLM by z01d · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released


    that's also what i'm wondering, why Mozilla implement this feature now when NTLM has been cracked long time ago? I used to believe they didn't support it because of legal thing...

  3. Legal Ramifications Resulting From Use of NTLM by use_compress · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released

    From http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3 990
    Microsoft's NTLM authentication protocol, popular on Windows-based corporate networks, is now supported by Mozilla on all platforms. Previously, NTLM authentication was only available to Windows Mozilla users, requiring the presence of the Windows SSPI API. Now, the SSPI code has been discarded and a cross-platform implementation has been checked in.

    This makes me wonder if Microsoft will peruse legal action to block Mozilla from using a cross-platform, non MS implementation of an MS technology. Because NTLM is undocumented, I wonder what the legal ramifications of implementing it are? Do you own a copyright to an undocumented technology?

  4. Re:Java corrections by fizbin · · Score: 1 · on What I Hate About Your Programming Language

    Good idea. I am forced to use 1.3 for a project, and would love to be able to steal classes from later versions. We moved to 1.3 to get HTTP 1.1 support, but our production environment would have been greatly simplified if we had stayed with 1.2.

    When we were faced with the same problem, we just went and used HTTPClient. Similarly, when we needed regexps in 1.3, we just went for the Jakarta ORO library. (And even in our java 1.4 environment, we're still using log4j)

    Sure, it would be nice if Sun split the standard library from the runtime engine, but third-party java libraries are plentiful and can often cover the gaps. Also, if there's some new feature in a higher java revision that you can't live without, you might want to first check whether Sun also released a version of this feature that's compatible with the java version you're stuck with. (e.g. JSSE for java 1.2)

  5. Re:Is MS-Proxy really refusing to route? by david-currie · · Score: 3 · on Non-Windows Clients Working Behind MS Proxy?
    I'm not sure if this is the same problem I have with the local HTTP proxy here running on NT/IIS, but a technical description of what is happening and how to implement the authentication for HTTP proxies is here and here respectively.

    Dave

  6. java libraries that handle cookies by kjw · · Score: 1 · on How do you Handle Cookies in Java?

    It's unclear from your question from what orientation you need to process cookies. If you're effectively a browser, I've been using HTTPClient version 0.3, and all you have to write is a "accept this cookie Y/N" function.