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David Bolen db3l at fitlinxx.com
Thu Apr 4 16:16:01 EST 2002 
Gustavo Cordova <gcordova at hebmex.com> writes:

> So, unless you're using some kind of authentication which is not
> part of the http protocol, we can't really help you much unless
> you give us a bit more information.

Microsoft's IIS has an "NTLM" authentication which is proprietary to
them that can be enabled to permit secure access to a site (typically
used on an Intranet) without requiring additional authentication
boxes.  In an all-MS shop, it works really well to let people use
their already authenticated domain information for Intranet security
as well, so it's probably reasonably common to turn on.

Note that while the actual authentication mechanism is proprietary (an
earlier post her did reference a Python module to help support this),
the HTTP protocol has generic support for authentication mechanisms in
general, so this doesn't violate HTTP itself.

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