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diff --git a/src/core/transport/http/sender/ntlm/README b/src/core/transport/http/sender/ntlm/README index e69de29..4e9203c 100644 --- a/src/core/transport/http/sender/ntlm/README +++ b/src/core/transport/http/sender/ntlm/README @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +NTLM authentication for Axis2/C clients using default http transport is made possible with this +package. By default NTLM authentication is disabled in Axis2/C build. to enable NTLM authentication +user need to configure Axis2/C with an external NTLM library like Heimdal[1] + +NTLM support is added to Axis2/C client transport as a dynamically loadedable library called axis2c_ntlm. +This library will wrap a external NTLM library like Heimdal to provide NTLM support. Axis2/C is shipped with +a wrapper to Heimdal which you can find under heimdal subdirectory here. Developers have tested successfully with a +wrapper to libntlm[2] as well. + +One can write a wrapper to any other external NTLM libary of his choice by implementing axis2_ntlm.h header file and +studying the heimdal wrapper here. + +To enable heimdal NTLM library at build time configure Axis2/C with following option +configure --enable-heimdal=yes + +There are some examples of using NTLM authenticaion with Axis2/C clients under +<AXIS2C_SOURCE>/samples/client/ntlm subdirecory. + + + +[1] http://www.h5l.org/ +[2] http://josefsson.org/libntlm/ |