adrian 2003/08/13 17:09:51
Modified: httpclient/xdocs authentication.xml
Log:
Added a note that the username should not be prefixed with the domain.
Thanks to David Cowan for discovering the omission.
Revision Changes Path
1.7 +5 -2 jakarta-commons/httpclient/xdocs/authentication.xml
Index: authentication.xml
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RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-commons/httpclient/xdocs/authentication.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.6 -r1.7
--- authentication.xml 8 Aug 2003 07:59:53 -0000 1.6
+++ authentication.xml 14 Aug 2003 00:09:51 -0000 1.7
@@ -106,7 +106,10 @@
<p>NTLM authentication requires an instance of NTCredentials be
available for the <i>domain name</i> of the server or the default
credentials. Note that since NTLM does not use the notion of realms
- HttpClient uses the domain name of the server as the name of the realm.</p>
+ HttpClient uses the domain name of the server as the name of the realm.
+ Also note that the username provided to the NTCredentials should not
+ be prefixed with the domain - ie: "adrian" is correct whereas
+ "DOMAIN\adrian" is not correct.</p>
<p>There are some significant differences in the way that NTLM works
compared with basic and digest authentication. These differences
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