Re: NTLM proxy authentication API
Re: NTLM proxy authentication API
- Subject: Re: NTLM proxy authentication API
- From: "Shawn Erickson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:40:31 -0700
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Shawn Erickson <email@hidden> wrote:
> Our product needs to do NTLM proxy authentication directly. Does Mac
> OS X expose any NTLM proxy authentication API that we can utilize? I
> see a few frameworks and libraries that have private API for this, aka
> non-exposed in headers that I have found.
>
> On Windows we utilize Win32 SSPI library to do NTLM proxy
> authentication directly.
>
> We know that CFHTTP supports NTLM authentication (among other schemes)
> however we cannot utilize CFHTTP since our product has the option/need
> to tunnel via HTTPS proxies (we don't communicate using HTTP but with
> our own protocol).
>
> We could in theory utilize CFHTTP if we could use it to do the
> authentication with the proxy (get things established) and then get
> access to the socket that CFHTTP uses so we could send our own data.
>
> Our product uses BSD sockets for its network communication currently.
Not sure if this made it to the list (likely just gmail's conversation
threading fooling me)...
Anyway I assume from the silence on this topic that no public API
exists to do NTLM proxy authentication on Mac OS X at this time.
-Shawn
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