Simple Kerberos client in Java?

Question

Applications such a Google\'s Chrome and IE can transparently handle Kerberos authentication; however I can not find a \"simple\" Java solution to match this transparency. A

Answer 1

You don't actually need to do anything. In Java 6, on a Windows client machine you can do this:

new URL("http://myhost/myapp").openStream();

And negotiate authentication just works. At least it does for me. And the server I tested on only supports Negotiate, not NTLM auth.