Igor, et al:

Anyone here know the internals of an XP-based network (running the newer Active Directory-like LDAP stuff, not the old style samba domain controller stuff) and if it would be easy to support it in nginx?

I'd love to be able to role model nginx inside of our enterprise environment as well as externally, and what better way than to have it support IE's built-in authentication (I don't know the exact specifics and what to call it) - I think Firefox supports it too (it prompts you once with an HTTP auth dialog, but then seems to remember that)

It's some challenge response mechanism. It would require nginx to speak to a domain controller (basically I think perl's Authen::SMB at one time worked) - I don't know if it speaks LDAP nowadays strictly or what; someone knowledgable with the protocol would need to be involved to make sure it was implemented correctly...

Just thought I'd bring it up. Maybe someone has some ideas. It's another item on my wishlist that I'd be willing to sponsor $$ wise...

Thanks!