Silent Authentication

I am designing an intranet site. All content is unprotected - anybody
on the intranet should be able to see everything. There is a
requirement to provide silent authentication against corporate Active
Directory whenever possible; in other words, when a user navigates to
the home page, we want to read some data from AD and provide
personalization if possible; however, if a visitor comes without AD
credentials (e.g. using a browser on a UNIX box not integrated with
AD), we would still authorize access and provide default user
experience. Under no circumstances should a user be prompted to log
in.

I need to have anonymous access enabled to allow for search engines to
"spider" this site, allow access for people who can't authenticate
with Windows Authentication, and avoid breaking other sites that
connect to the content of this site.

Basic Authentication seems like a perfect solution, but it forces a
logon dialogue for Firefox users (IE seems to do what I would like -
automatically replies to the challenge in the WWW-Authenticate header
of 401 response).

It seems like there should be a way to accomplish what I want. Please,
help.

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