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Re: Can't get in to password protected sites

From: Kingsley Tart <kingsley.lists_at_skymarket.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:46:57 -0000

> You're doomed!
>
> The NTLM authentication scheme is a proprietary Microsoft
> crap. There is no documentation available on this baby, so
> we honest working hackers have to try to reverse engineer
> the protocol to be able to support it.

Oh damn, that's dampened my bonfire somewhat. Trust Microsoft to be
awkward!

> Microsoft has its own way of doing things,
> as usual...

I get so annoyed that they keep doing that. Makes things so hard to work
with. Oh well ...

Cheers,
Kingsley.
Received on 2000-11-15