How do I access Windows credentials from Java?

Question

How do I (or can I?) retrieve the cached credentials for the currently logged-in Windows user in Java? I want to reuse these credentials in some other GSS-API calls. Specifi

Answer 1

If IIS has Integrated Windows Authentication turned on, then you can still access the protected page by using the http://spnego.sourceforge.net/api/net/sourceforge/spnego/SpnegoHttpURLConnection.html class. This open source project's "credential delegation" tutorial also uses the SpnegoHttpURLConnection class.