From: Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault Date: 2006-01-31T14:49:06+09:00 Subject: Re: Announcing libruby-ntlm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, January 30, 2006 21:32, Jason Sweat said: > On 1/30/06, Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> This Saturday, I spent some time coding an NTLM authentication module. >> It >> can be found on my blog at >> http://x2a.org/2006/01/29/update-on-schools-internet-access-libntlm-ruby/. >> >> I am announcing this here in the hope that somebody else might find this >> useful. I am also wondering if there are any patent concerns over NTLM >> authentication; if somebody could enlighten me, I would appreciate it >> very >> much. >> >> Also, I have not found any clean way to integrate NTLM authentication in >> Net::HTTP since the way ISA does authentication is pretty >> ugly/non-standard. >> >> Thank you for your time, >> Jonathan > > Could this be used with WEBrick to provide a server using NTML > authentication on Linux? It only acts as an authentication client for now, I do not plan on making it an authentication provider, as there are _standard_ authentication protocols available. If you want to add that functionality, you have some code in there that may help you and I am willing to accept patches. Good luck, Jonathan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD3vpCt3/zhzyeO3cRApbvAJ4vhb085jvZYMPix+Z9YLzdEoIobgCfS/1k o2pScd48sp9J9woJompTpzE= =vObc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----