60784 - Support NTLM also for Proxy Authentication

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 35159

(Core :: Networking, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jorma Heimonen]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001120
BuildID:    2000112008

I noticed from the bug no 23679 that you are finally developing
support for MS NTLM authentication. Please include also
support for NTLM proxy authentication. Please include support
for NTLM & NTLM proxy authentication to all platforms (especially Linux), not
only MS.


This would make Mozilla/Netscape finally work with the
not so good but widely used M$ Proxy Server.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
N/A

It may be hard to realise at Netscape, but the lack of
NTLM authentication support has been one of the major
reasons to switch from Netscape to MSIE
in many corporate environments.

Many security administrators are happy with the fact that
NTLM does not send the password in clear text.
Many end users are happy because of the single sign-on
that NTLM provides (they are not prompted for password
when accessing the web)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Good idea.  This should hopefully be done.

Comment 2

[Bradley Baetz]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23679 ***

Comment 3

[James Green]

Verified dup.

Comment 4

[benc]

need to dupe to correct 'original' bug.

Comment 5

[benc]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35159 ***

Comment 6

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

vrfy