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IIS/IE only supported BASIC authentication, for example.

They can use SSPI too, which is a generic mechanism to support other authentication methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Support_Provider_Inte...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPNEGO

The Microsoft world has always had some pretty advanced yet somewhat obscure stuff --- a shame that they're not more well-known. Other examples include MSRPC (through which you can do SSH-ish things), WMI, everything Active Directory, etc.



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