Mozilla NTLM (was RE: [Gllug] Halifax online banking (still?))

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 08:45, French, Alastair wrote:
> Richard Jones <mailto:rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:47:58PM +0000, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> >> There is a mozilla patch floating about to provide NTLM
> >> authentication, if that is what you are after....
> > 
> > I think it got included in the end didn't it?
> > 
> I've just downloaded v1.5 (again) and reinstalled it and it still doesn't
> work, 
> 
> I think I need to get the source and patch it rather than use the windows
> installer.

Admittedly, I've not tried this myself, as I don;t have to contend with
MS Proxy servers, but I don't think any kind of source patching should
be necessary. NTLM support was added with Mozilla 1.4, and is mentioned
as a new feature in the release notes for that version:-

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4/README.html#new

The bugzilla history of the NTLM feature is here:-

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23679

This mentions that PSM must be installed for NTLM to work.

Also, if all else fails there is a proxy for NTML you can install at
http://www.geocities.com/rozmanov/ntlm/, which should allow any browser
to work with it.

It's worth bearing in mind that IE uses bith NTLM and WPAD (proxy
auto-discovery), so it's possible that IE may "just work" whereas you
might need to explicitly tell Mozilla the ip address of your proxy.

Mike.


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