Seamless authentication has progressed from the Mozilla trunk to being in nightly Firefox builds. That means it’ll be in 1.0. Yay! Fuckin’ yay-hey-hey! Firefox at work, here we come!
Incidentally, in case I haven’t been clear enough about this, Darin Fisher, who implemented this stuff, is the king of the world. All hail Darin! I offered the bloke some payment to hack on the seamless auth bug and he refused it, saying that he was already working on it and therefore didn’t need extra payment. How cool is this guy? For he’s a jolly good fella, for he’s a jolly good fella, for he’s a jolly good fella, and so say all us poor schlubs stuck with IE because we’re using NTLM auth on intranets.
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Gary
DeanG
I didn’t see this [functionality, did not RTS] in the Firefox 1.0 preview, or the Sep. 15 nightly build. did you?
As you say, this is a HUGE distractor from folks leaving IE in, say, an Intranet setting.
Maybe I’m mis-understanding the feature…is it an extension?
http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2004/08/26/seamlessMozilla is 404
sil
It’s in 1.0PR. I was using it today :)
And http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2004/09/06/seamlessMozilla, because I’m thick and broke a permalink…
jim
How do I switch this on? It doesn’t seem to work by default? Is there a hidden setting?
sil
Jim,
You need to set the server names to which seamless auth is allowed. In about:config, edit (or create) the key network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris and set its value to a comma-separated list of servers (serv1name, serv2name, serv3name).
sil
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231529#c30 gives details)
Tis indeed very good news. If I was still working for the BigCo, I would be able to remove the auth hack I did—IS don’t like that kind of thing.