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Our development team is situated behind a Microsoft Proxy, which is set up to accept only NTLM authentication. This means, that we cannot update Eclipse, since the update mechanism does not support NTLM authentication. It would be quite simple to add support for this, if the Eclipse team started using the HTTPClient from the Apache Jakarta project: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/index.html This seems to be a quite common problem in many Java applications, since the Sun JDK does not support the NTLM authentication.
this may also help us in our *improve reliability of http connection* as I believe this package provides utilities to restart or cancel URL right ?
We must be careful here - I checked the link and the project is in the alpha 2 phase of the release 2. I don't know if they will ship 2.0 any time soon but it worries me that the project seems to follow non-linear schedule (it accelerates and slows down based on the interest). I would be hesistant to rehost critical network code on an open-source code that is on a fluid schedule with no apparent project plan.
I agree. So your point is that wither we get a very stable component or we develop it ourselves (which is the same right ;-)
In jCIFS there is an implementation of NTLM authentication: http://jcifs.samba.org There is some information about the NTLM authentication protocol (along with an implementation) here: http://www.luigidragone.com/networking/ntlm.html
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Apparently NTLM support is available in jdk 1.4.2 (which is what eclipse needs in 3.0). Can you try it now? As usual, - set the http proxy host and port (on the Install/Update preference page, or pass -Dhttp.proxyHost and -Dhttp.proxyPort to the eclipse startup command), - use update manager to install from an update site - when the log in dialog prompts you for user id and password make sure that the user id is of the form domain\user (unless you are already logged in on the same domain).
No login-dialog appears and it just hangs during the update. After a while (couple of minutes) the next steap appears in the update wizard, but with no updates available. [JDK version 1.4.2 and Eclipse version 3.0M5]
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I have retried with Eclipse 3.0M6 and Sun JDK 1.4.2_03 and it worked without any problems.
Thanks, I will then close the bug. We are also investigating using apache's http client code, that offers more options for secure connections, but even without it, with the jdk level you mention things should be working fine.
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