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Aspider support the following schemes:

  • Basic
  • Digest
  • NTLM
  • Negotiate/Kerberos

Note

Some sites have two "WWW-Authenticate" headers in their response. The first one they correspond to the preferred schema and the second one is used for fail-over, this is done because some browsers don't support the preferred authentication scheme. As Aspider is concerned you can use either one of the two mechanisms if they are one of the supported schemas mentioned above.

Info

Some schemas require a realm to work, if you see any realm inside of the response headers, use that in the configuration.

Basic/Digest/NTLM

Try your credentials with curl:

Code Block
$ curl -I --<basic/digest/ntlm> -u <username> <the-seed-url>

The command will prompt you for the password. If the response header come as below you have the correct credentials.

Code Block
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: <XXX>
Content-Type: text/html
Last-Modified: <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>

Negotiate/Kerberos

If you want to use the Negotiate/Kerberos authentication scheme you need to find out the "Key Distribution Center" (KDC) which is a service that supplies session tickets and temporary session keys to users and computers within an Active Directory domain. If you don't know your KDC address do as follows:

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