On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:24 PM,  <apa...@buglecreek.com> wrote:
> Server - RH5 httpd-2.2.3
>
> I have setup a server that uses ssl ldap authentication.  This all works
> fine.  I am trying to understand the connection from a client browser to
> the server.  I am sniffing the packets on the server with tcpdump and
> also have tried wireshark. Since the server is using http not https I
> assumed that all traffic from the client browser to the server would be
> in clear text.  So, when I connect to the server with the client browser
> I get the authentication window.  I enter a username and passwd.
> Looking at the traffic on the server I see everything but the username
> and passwd

It's base64-encoded in the Authorization request header.

-- 
Eric Covener
cove...@gmail.com

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