bug#43566: 27.1; url-http and excorporate does not authenticate

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Domingo Gómez Pérez <domingo.gomez@unican.es> writes:
>
>> url-http-handle-authentication: Wrong authorization used for 
>> https://correo.unican.es/ews/exchange.asmx
>> (Note, the user and password are right, since I can download the page
>> using wget)
>
> [...]
>
>> Authorization: NTLM TlRMTVN[etc]
>
> Is wget using NTLM authentication, though?  And how have you set up
> url.el to use NTLM?
>
> I'm not familiar with NTLM at all, so I hope there wasn't anything
> secret in that base64'd auth string. 

No, that's the Type 1 message which is a generic request to the server
to initiate the NTLM back-n-forth (there are three message types).  It
doesn't contain a username or password.

Thomas