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iOS 7 breaks windows authentication.

This is a HUGE problem. Please fix this as soon as possible. It does work on Chrome but Chrome on iPad is pretty bad...


If anyone has found a workaround please, please let me know.


Thanks for all of the help. 🙂

iPad 2, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 19, 2013 6:26 AM

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Sep 27, 2013 7:30 AM in response to ReyAhtbor

Sweet, great to know there's a reasonable workaround (private browsing). Of course, if you've got a site that relies heavily on cookies, this might be impractical. Should be good enough for our needs for the time being, though.


Also, the bug report ID that I filed is 14985097. I don't know if there's any value to including that with additional bug reports on the problem, but it might help get this noticed.

Oct 2, 2013 2:59 AM in response to be05x5

I was able to reproduce this problem on iPhone 4 with iOS 7.0.2 and IIS on W2008R2 too. The problem is in Windows Authentication IIS settings. If Kerberos is present between enabled providers (for Windows Authentication) Safari fails to load web page. If Kerberos is disabled, only NTLM provider exists so Safari is forced to use NTLM authentication and web page loads successfully.


Safari on iOS6 worked fine even if Kerberos was enabled.


I have already sent this as a feedback to Apple.

Oct 2, 2013 6:10 AM in response to rdol

Excellent investigation by rdol!


I tested out his fix by disabling Kerberos on one of our IIS 7.5 servers and it worked. Authentication was very quick. There is a nicely detailed discussion on exactly how to disable Kerberos on IIS 7.x at Stack Overflow:


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16222946/remove-negotiate-from-windowsauthent ication-in-iis


This is an acceptable workaround for us since none of our installations use Kerberos Authentication. But it's a completely unnecessary step to have to go through. Apple has to get this fixed quick.

iOS 7 breaks windows authentication.

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