Re: NTLM proxy support needed

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 07:23:04PM +0800, Arthur Zhang wrote:
> Please add a function of NTLM authorization (domain authorization)
> proxy support, because in my lan environment the fascist proxy maybe
> MS proxy which needs not only the username/password but also domain.
> I've tried to use "domain\username" as username but it doesn't work.
> Fortunately, I found a software named "NTLM Authorization Proxy
> Server" which is a proxy-like software, that will authorize client at
> MS proxy server and at web servers (ISS especially) using MS
> proprietary NTLM authorization method (it can change some values in
> client's request header so that those requests will look like ones
> made by MS IE). Thus the NTML proxy looks like a basic or non
> authorization proxy. It is written in Python language so it's a open
> source software (http://ntlmaps.sourceforge.net).
> So, would TOR developers please consider adding this function with
> referrence of the source code metioned before?

It looks like the best answer is for you to run this ntlmaps thing
locally as an http and https proxy to convert the basic auth that Tor
expects to your local proprietary format.

With luck, Tor doesn't need to do anything different at all.

--Roger