I am developing an Android application which access Sharepoint Web Service and does SOAP processing. I tried various ways like JCIFS, etc. Nothing worked.
Could any one help me here? I googling it from many days, but everyone who has this issue is frustrated.
Thanks,
Indrajit
I'm not expert in NTLM but I successfully connected to our backend using JCIFS library and some manual work with the headers.
I also use OkHttp 3 library for network connection, but you could probably adapt my code to other libraries.
The main idea is that you have to negotiate with the server to connect.
Step 1:
When you try to connect the 1st time you'll fail and receive some information in the header:
WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate
WWW-Authenticate: NTLM
Step 2:
You need to generate a Key of type 1 (with optional domain & workstation parameters) using the jcifs library, and try to connect again.
You'll fail again but receive some useful information in the header:
WWW-Authenticate: NTLM very_long_challenge_key
Step 3:
You need to generate a Key of type 3 with that challenge key + login + password, using the jcifs library. Then the connection will succeed!
Now some code, add the dependency to the libraries in the build.gradle file of your app:
compile files('libs/jcifs-1.3.18.jar')
compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.4.1'
The jar can be found here: https://jcifs.samba.org/src/
Then the NTLMAuthenticator class
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import jcifs.ntlmssp.NtlmFlags;
import jcifs.ntlmssp.Type1Message;
import jcifs.ntlmssp.Type2Message;
import jcifs.ntlmssp.Type3Message;
import jcifs.util.Base64;
import okhttp3.Authenticator;
import okhttp3.Credentials;
import okhttp3.Request;
import okhttp3.Response;
import okhttp3.Route;
/**
* Created by Arnaud Guyon on 07.02.17.
*/
public class NTLMAuthenticator implements Authenticator {
private static final int TYPE_1_FLAGS =
NtlmFlags.NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_56 |
NtlmFlags.NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_128 |
NtlmFlags.NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_NTLM2 |
NtlmFlags.NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_ALWAYS_SIGN |
NtlmFlags.NTLMSSP_REQUEST_TARGET;
private String mLogin;
private String mPassword;
private String mDomain;
private String mWorkstation;
public NTLMAuthenticator(@NonNull String login, @NonNull String password) {
this(login, password, "", "");
}
public NTLMAuthenticator(@NonNull String login, @NonNull String password, @NonNull String domain, @NonNull String workstation) {
mLogin = login;
mPassword = password;
mDomain = domain;
mWorkstation = workstation;
}
@Override
public Request authenticate(Route route, Response response) throws IOException {
List<String> authHeaders = response.headers("WWW-Authenticate");
if (authHeaders != null) {
boolean negociate = false;
boolean ntlm = false;
String ntlmValue = null;
for (String authHeader : authHeaders) {
if (authHeader.equalsIgnoreCase("Negotiate")) {
negociate = true;
}
if (authHeader.equalsIgnoreCase("NTLM")) {
ntlm = true;
}
if (authHeader.startsWith("NTLM ")) {
ntlmValue = authHeader.substring(5);
}
}
if (negociate && ntlm) {
String type1Msg = generateType1Msg(mDomain, mWorkstation);
String header = "NTLM " + type1Msg;
return response.request().newBuilder().header("Authorization", header).build();
} else if (ntlmValue != null) {
String type3Msg = generateType3Msg(mLogin, mPassword, mDomain, mWorkstation, ntlmValue);
String ntlmHeader = "NTLM " + type3Msg;
return response.request().newBuilder().header("Authorization", ntlmHeader).build();
}
}
if (responseCount(response) <= 3) {
String credential = Credentials.basic(mLogin, mPassword);
return response.request().newBuilder().header("Authorization", credential).build();
}
return null;
}
private String generateType1Msg(@NonNull String domain, @NonNull String workstation) {
final Type1Message type1Message = new Type1Message(TYPE_1_FLAGS, domain, workstation);
byte[] source = type1Message.toByteArray();
return Base64.encode(source);
}
private String generateType3Msg(final String login, final String password, final String domain, final String workstation, final String challenge) {
Type2Message type2Message;
try {
byte[] decoded = Base64.decode(challenge);
type2Message = new Type2Message(decoded);
} catch (final IOException exception) {
exception.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
final int type2Flags = type2Message.getFlags();
final int type3Flags = type2Flags
& (0xffffffff ^ (NtlmFlags.NTLMSSP_TARGET_TYPE_DOMAIN | NtlmFlags.NTLMSSP_TARGET_TYPE_SERVER));
final Type3Message type3Message = new Type3Message(type2Message, password, domain,
login, workstation, type3Flags);
return Base64.encode(type3Message.toByteArray());
}
private int responseCount(Response response) {
int result = 1;
while ((response = response.priorResponse()) != null) {
result++;
}
return result;
}
}
Then when you create your OkHttpClient, add this authenticator:
OkHttpClient okHttpClient = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
.authenticator(new NTLMAuthenticator(login, password))
// .some other init here if necessary
.build();
And then do your requests as usual.
Check this...........................
http://www.robertkuzma.com/2011/07/manipulating-sharepoint-list-items-with-android-java-and-ntlm-authentication/