pinging Intranet using Active Directory credentials

[Ben Rubinstein]

Mark E. Powell wrote:
> I can see the corporate intranet through browsers and other tools.  However, when I use 'load URL' type calls within Rev to the intranet location I get HTTP Error 401.1
> 
> Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials.
> 
> I am sure this is because the corporate image is set up to read Active Directory credentials transparently.  
> 
> How do I do the same from a Rev standalone?  Is there standard syntax for passing these parameters?  
> 
> TIA for any life raft you have to spare.

Do you have any ability to watch the network traffic?  I use Interarchy on Mac 
(NB 8 and earlier, unfortunately this feature has been removed from the 
recently released Interarchy 9); but I believe there are free tools available 
for both Mac and Windows that do the same thing).  Search for Traffic Watch or 
Packet Sniffer (or perhaps someone on this list can recommend one).  If you're 
command line savvy, on Mac or Linux at least you can probably use tcpdump, 
which is built in - I've never figured out how to though.

Anyway, given such a facility,  the easiest way I find to debug these issues 
is to put some such program on, then access the resource through the browser. 
  Then you can look at the actual requests sent, and if necessary compare with 
the request being sent from Rev.

Depending on how your corporate intranet is secured, it may or may not be 
possible to access through Rev. AFAIK, it will most likely either be easy 
(once you've found out what you need to do) or impossible (if it requires some 
encrypted authentification requiring some Windows component).  Can you access 
the intranet from Mac or Linux, using a variety of browsers?  If so it will 
probably be easy.

HTH,

- Ben