Bug#857327: libapache2-authenntlm-perl: does not work with Apache 2.4

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:07:43 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> >  From reading the above URLs, it seems that
> >      remote_addr -> client_addr
> >      remote_ip -> client_ip
> > should do the trick.
> 
> I tried that, and it's better - no problems on the Apache side at least.

Great, thanks for trying!
 
> I think it's outdated on the NTLM side, as Edge on Windows 10 was not able
> to authenticate to it. But the basic authentication fallback works at least,
> as I was able to authenticate that way from cURL.

Ack, I've also seen some bug report that it fails with newer
Microsoft browsers.
 
> Given that this package has been broken for years without anyone noticing
> perhaps it should be removed instead?

Right, it seems that there are hardly any users, and upstream seems
inactive as well. So while it seems to be easy to fix this bug,
altogether this looks like a candidate for removal.

Let's wait a few days to see if anyone raises objections.


Cheers,
gregor

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