Re: NTLM proxy support needed

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There is no plan to support NTLM authentication in Tor.  However, we're
happy to accept patches.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 09:37:36AM +0800, arthur2000@xxxxxxxxx wrote 1.5K bytes in 32 lines about:
: 2005/6/24, 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
: > 
: > 
: 
: Yes, that's the way I've used, nesting TOR with NTLMAPS, quite ok.
: Do you have plan let TOR support NTLM parent proxy?
: 
: Arthur
: 2005/06/24

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