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Posted to dev@hc.apache.org by Erik Abele <er...@codefaktor.de> on 2008/03/01 17:48:30 UTC
Re: NTLMv2 in Apache HttpClient
On 28.02.2008, at 21:00, Oleg Kalnichevski wrote:
> ...
>> Can you contact the necessary people on the Apache side to ensure
>> that
>> any implementation I provide, based solely on these specs, could be
>> contributed to the HttpClient?
>>
>
> Sure.
>
> Roland, Erik, I gather you both are subscribed to the legal@apache
> list
> already?
Yep, I'm subscribed to legal-discuss@ and -internal@.
> Would it be a big deal for you post a question to our legal
> team whether the two specs mentioned previously would be enough to
> accept a clean room implementation of the NTLM authentication scheme
> based on those specs?
Done, fits nicely with the recent discussion re MS Open Spec Promise
[1] - will get back to this list as soon as there's something concrete.
Cheers,
Erik
[1] http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx
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Re: NTLMv2 in Apache HttpClient
Posted by Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>.
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 17:48 +0100, Erik Abele wrote:
> On 28.02.2008, at 21:00, Oleg Kalnichevski wrote:
>
> > ...
> >> Can you contact the necessary people on the Apache side to ensure
> >> that
> >> any implementation I provide, based solely on these specs, could be
> >> contributed to the HttpClient?
> >>
> >
> > Sure.
> >
> > Roland, Erik, I gather you both are subscribed to the legal@apache
> > list
> > already?
>
> Yep, I'm subscribed to legal-discuss@ and -internal@.
>
> > Would it be a big deal for you post a question to our legal
> > team whether the two specs mentioned previously would be enough to
> > accept a clean room implementation of the NTLM authentication scheme
> > based on those specs?
>
> Done, fits nicely with the recent discussion re MS Open Spec Promise
> [1] - will get back to this list as soon as there's something concrete.
>
You are the greatest! Many thanks, Erik!
It seems we have a potential contributor willing to contribute a major
piece of code. We ought not lose this opportunity.
Oleg
> Cheers,
> Erik
>
> [1] http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx
>
>
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