NTLM authentication fails when connecting from a windows machine

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Client is running on a window 7 machine (Or an xp machine) opening a json 
url which should return a json string
2. have an apache tomcat which uses ntlm authentication running
   on a windows xp machine 
3. i am trying the Basic example usage

What is the expected output? a python string

What do you see instead?
File 
"D:\quartz\WINSLA~1\WIN32-~4\build\ext\noarch\lib\python2.6\ntlm\HTTPNtlmAuthHan
dler.py", line 96, in http_error_401
  File "D:\quartz\WINSLA~1\WIN32-~4\build\ext\noarch\lib\python2.6\ntlm\HTTPNtlmAuthHandler.py", line 35, in http_error_authentication_required
  File "D:\quartz\WINSLA~1\WIN32-~4\build\ext\noarch\lib\python2.6\ntlm\HTTPNtlmAuthHandler.py", line 69, in retry_using_http_NTLM_auth
  File "D:\quartz\WINSLA~1\WIN32-~4\build\ext\noarch\lib\python2.6\ntlm\ntlm.py", line 219, in parse_NTLM_CHALLENGE_MESSAGE
error: unpack requires a string argument of length 4

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

i don't know the exact version of python ntlm but i m running python version 2.6

i have tried also the extended usage, but it fails with the same problem

could anyone assist?

w/kindest regards
 marco

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mmistr...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2012 at 3:28