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Subject:    Re: NTLM auth causes "NTLM authentication - buffer too small for data item"
From:       Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk () apache ! org>
Date:       2017-11-16 14:39:36
Message-ID: 1510843176.5019.1 () ok2consulting ! com
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Marcel Stör <marcel@frightanic.com> 
wrote:
> Hi Oleg,
> 
> Thanks for getting back to me.
> 
> On 15.11.17 15:41, Oleg Kalnichevski wrote:
>>  There is only a single committer on the project capable of 
>> maintaining
>>  NTLM code and debugging NTLM protocol issues, but he's been 
>> inactive for
>>  a considerable while.
> Are you referring to Karl? I came to this conclusion by looking at the
> commit history...
> Would you mind pinging him about this? I contribute a lot of time to
> open-source and know first-hand how committers hate to be PMed by
> non-committers about issues.


Hi Marcel

Yes, that is correct. I was referring to Karl. I am not sure if my 
committer status makes any difference when it comes to contacting 
anyone off the list. It is considered a fairly blunt violation of the 
project etiquette. I do resort to nagging PMC members every once in a 
while but I always loathe doing so.


> 
>>  If you are reasonably sure this is a bug in NTLMEngineImpl please 
>> raise
>>  a JIRA
> I can't be sure and I wanted to be a good OSS citizen by not creating 
> a
> JIRA issue just to increase the visibility of this problem. I was 
> hoping
> the standalone test case I put together would lower the barrier enough
> for people to engage ;-)

This is truly appreciated. I often get rubbed the wrong way by people's 
raising JIRAs for what is essentially a support question rather than a 
defect report or a change request. In this case however this looks 
justified. If it turns out to be not a bug it might well be seen as a 
feature request.


If Karl does not react to the JIRA notification on the dev list, you 
might want to reference his username in a comment and ask very gently 
about his opinion. If he does not react to that, you are out of luck, 
and I might have another reason to seriously consider dropping fucking 
NTLM support altogether.

Oleg


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