Re: How to extract the NT username from NTLM message?

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From: Chris Bilson (cbilson_at_pobox.com)
Date: 08/06/04 

Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 06:54:01 -0700

darin dimitrov wrote:

> So my question is: Does the "Authorization" header mentioned above
> contains the username of the person who accessed my script? If the
> answer is "yes" then could you please point me to some interesting
> articles that discuss how to extract the username from such a header
> using the .NET framework? I have read through the The NTLM
> Authentication Protocol (http://davenport.sourceforge.net/ntlm.html)
> but it didn't help me much - I find it difficult to implement. Thanks
> in advance for any suggestions.

I can tell you for certain that the Authorization header does not
contain the user's NT login name.

--ChrisBilson

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