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navgup_66025
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Jun 28, 2013

spnego kerberos header vs ntlm header

I have 2 pools for a virtual. PoolA has 2 nodes with kerberos/spnego enabled backend web servers and PoolB has 2 nodes with ntlm enabled backend web servers.   I am new to this and looking for som...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Jun 28, 2013
Because the browser generally sends the same 'Authorization: Negotiate" header for both NTLM and Kerberos requests, I believe the easiest thing would just be to look at the size of the header. Kerberos Authorization headers are MUCH longer than NTLM Authorization headers.