winfoom

In the corporate environment, taking the time to make sure all compatibilities are ensured is a difficult task. Even though you may have a dedicated team on it, sometimes, various applications have problems when dealing with the protocol of an authenticated server.

Winfoom is a tool designed to help you address this issue and serves as a facade that enables such programs and services to authenticate via a Kerberos or NTML proxy server. The app works as standalone, but also includes a Java environment AdoptOpenJDK, if you prefer not to install anything on your system.

Giving the nature of the app, it goes without saying that the authentication process is done without the actual handshake. What this means is that the program sits between the server proxy and the application for the purpose of offloading the authentication and the proxy's protocol. The advantage is that the application solely has to pass the basic proxy and not the authentication, which may be quite complex in a corporate environment.

Since it is a facade, the app comes with a minimal graphical user interface that enables you to configure the host, port and the URL so that you can test the settings. According to the developer, these fields are pre-filled as the app gathers these values from your system.