[HTTPCLIENT-1380] NTLMEngineImpl: Change exception message to be informative

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.2.5
• Fix Version/s: 4.3.6, 4.4 Beta1
• Component/s: HttpClient (classic)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ricardo Pereira
• Created: 02/Jul/13 21:40
• Updated: 04/May/17 09:49
• Resolved: 15/Sep/14 08:34

Description

The class NTLMEngineImpl throws an exception when the NTLM server sends the challenge message with the field NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_UNICODE set to 0, but the exception message says "NTLM type 2 message has flags that make no sense: ".
The message gives no clue to what the problem is and forces the user to check the source code if (s)he wants to know why the exception was thrown.

Consider changing the exception message to report what the problem really is.