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Bug 207097

Summary:	provide user with informative error dialog when trying to authenticate without proper NTLM credentials
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Robert Elves <robert.elves>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	robert.elves, t-oberlies
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	355752
Bug Blocks:

Description Robert Elves

2007-10-22 18:23:34 EDT

For example, when a user enters regular username and password without the domain for NTLM authenticaiton the follow exception is thrown. Users could be informed that their proxy requires ntml login and provide username format.

[ERROR] HttpMethodDirector - Credentials cannot be used for NTLM authentication: org.apache.commons.httpclient.UsernamePasswordCredentials <org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.InvalidCredentialsException: Credentials cannot be used for NTLM authentication: org.apache.commons.httpclient.UsernamePasswordCredentials>org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.InvalidCredentialsException: Credentials cannot be used for NTLM authentication: org.apache.commons.httpclient.UsernamePasswordCredentials
	at org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.NTLMScheme.authenticate(NTLMScheme.java:331)
	at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.authenticateProxy(HttpMethodDirector.java:319)
	at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeConnect(HttpMethodDirector.java:490)
	at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeWithRetry(HttpMethodDirector.java:390)
	at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeMethod(HttpMethodDirector.java:170)
	at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:396)
	at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:324)
	at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.BugzillaClient.connectInternal(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.BugzillaClient.getConnect(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.BugzillaClient.logout(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.bugzilla.core.BugzillaClient.validate(Unknown Source)
	at com.tasktop.doc.ui.TasktopDocPlugin$2$1.run(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:113)

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2009-12-23 13:02:42 EST

*** Bug 298310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Steffen Pingel

2011-09-28 02:21:37 EDT

Tracked on bug 355752 now.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 355752 ***

Comment 3 Steffen Pingel

2011-09-28 02:23:52 EDT

On second thought we should consider this as a separate issue.

Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

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