Browser authentication

Wyllys Ingersoll wyllys.ingersoll at sun.com
Mon Feb 23 09:20:26 EST 2004


On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 04:24, Lukas Kubin wrote:
> I would like to know, whether there is a functional solution for MIT 
> Kerberos authentication using web browser or not? I mean a solution, 
> where it is enough to have valid ticket in Kerberos cache - ie. no need 
> to type password anywhere.
> If yes, what do I need to use to make it work? Which browsers are 
> enabled for such solution?
> Thank you.


The correct way to do this is with GSSAPI, Microsoft implemented
a similar method with IE and IIS.  Mozilla is working on adding
this functionality to the upcoming 1.7 release (for Unix users).

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17578

-Wyllys





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