Username and password encoding

[Karthikeyani K <ka...@yahoo.com>]

Hi,
We are using NTCredentials class from httpClient (commons-httpclient-2.0.jar) for NTLM Authentication. Just wanted to know whether the username and password passed to the constructor of NTCredentials be encoded by using Base64 encoding. or should it be passed as a normal username and password without encoding.

 

Thanks,

Karthi




		
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Re: Username and password encoding

[Michael Becke <be...@u.washington.edu>]

Hello Karthi,

There is no need to encode the username and password.  It gets handled 
as part of the NTLM authentication process.

Mike

On Jul 29, 2004, at 2:40 PM, Karthikeyani K wrote:

> Hi,
> We are using NTCredentials class from httpClient 
> (commons-httpclient-2.0.jar) for NTLM Authentication. Just wanted to 
> know whether the username and password passed to the constructor of 
> NTCredentials be encoded by using Base64 encoding. or should it be 
> passed as a normal username and password without encoding.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karthi
>
>
>
>
> 		
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> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!


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