Web App authentication with OWA

From: TwistedPair (twistedpair@mail.com)
Date: 02/20/03 

From: "TwistedPair" <twistedpair@mail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:25:17 -0800

Hi All,
We have an ASP app that wants to talk to Exchange. We want to minimize the
amount of places where the user needs to enter their username and password.
To this end, our lovely developers found a way to make it so that once
logged into the apps (using basic authentication) their usernam and password
is embedded into the links to exchange, so it looks like this:

<!--<a
href="password@mail.owaaddress.com/public/Public%20Calendar">https://username:password@mail.owaaddress.com/public/Public%20Calendar
/?Cmd=contents" sticky=true radio="DAYVIEW;WEEKVIEW">Calendar</a>-->

This, of course, is not good for obvious reasons. One recommendation was to
remove the functionality of adding in the username and passwords, but
install an exchange front-end on the server that is hosting this app. That
way it would not have to travel accross the domain to another server and
have to log in. However both machines are on the same domain. Shouldn't
their credentials just work? If I switched it to integrated auth, and
removed the usernames and passwords, would that work?

Thanks,
Pair

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