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Re: SPNEGO bug in CFNetwork

Becky Willrich wrote:
I looked at the bug - looks like the spec sez that string should be  case-insensitive.  Where precisely is this failing?  That is, what  server is requiring precisely the uppercase string?
Becky -

Kerberos 5 principal names are normally case sensitive.  Just about every other server principal  uses a lower case service name; SPNEGO is the odd one out.  In fact the earliest versions of the SPNEGO drafts did specify http/<hostname>; however this was broken in later drafts, and in deployed code.

Simple explanation of the normal convention in the java docs here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/security/jgss/tutorials/KerberosReq.html

SPNEGO 'spec' : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url="">
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  1. Create the SPNs associated with this account on the KDC: 
    setspn—A host/mysrvr.proseware.com mysrvr
setspn—A HTTP/mysrvr.proseware.com mysrvr
    Note   Use upper-case "HTTP" to match the way Internet Explorer builds SPNs. Alternatively, you can run ktpass (as shown below) to create the SPNs. When using the "-princ" option of ktpass, you are specifying the Kerberos
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Kitten hasn't changed this, because it would break the installed base.
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