Authentication property
Determines type of authentication with the web server.
Syntax
object.Authentication [= value]
The Authentication(object,value) syntax has these parts:
Remarks
The settings for value are:
| Constant | Value | Description |
| AuthNone | 0 | No authentication |
| AuthAutomatic | 1 | Auto select authentication |
| AuthBasic | 2 | Basic authentication |
| AuthNTLM | 3 | NTLM authentication |
| AuthDigest | 4 | Digest authentication |
| AuthWindowsIntegrated | 5 | Windows Integrated authentication |
Authentication property determines if wodHttpDLX should authenticate with the web server to access protected resource. In most cases this is not needed, but sometimes access to restricted areas may be needed.
For this purpose, wodHttpDLX can authenticate using
Basic and
NTLM authentication. NTLM is far more secure, because password is *never* sent over insecure network to the remote side. Rather, sequence of challenge/response messages are sent during this authentication. wodHttpDLX has been tested with MS Proxy and IIS server for NTLM authentication. Basic authentication (using base64 encoded login and password) if far more widespread, and is used by many proxy and WEB servers.
If you don't want to authenticate with the server, you can either set Authentication to
AuthNone value, or you can leave
login/
password properties empty.
If you specify authentication mode explicitly, using
AuthBasic or
AuthNTLM value, wodHttpDLX will immediately in your next request send authentication request to the server.
The best option (and default, of course) is
AuthAutomatic value, which will try to access the resource without any login/password information, and then resend requests WITH authentication information only if server returned 'access denied' response. In this case, wodHttpDLX can issue many requests in order to pass through proxy and WEB server protections. Make sure that
AutoRedirect property is set to True (it is by default) in such cases. After all those requests are internally sent,
Done event will be fired only once - when wodHttpDLX has completed it's job, either successfully or with error response from the remote side
Don't forget that
AuthNTLM may use
MyHostname property to identify your computer to the server! You may want to clear it out if you're accessing HTTP server outside your domain!
When
AuthWindowsIntegrated is selected, wodHttpDLX will send login and password of currently logged in Windows user. This type of authentication is used with
NTLM authentication type.
Platforms
Windows
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