I am trying to publish a web site. When I try to access it through ISA, ISA showed this error:
"Error Code: 403 Forbidden. ISA Server is configured to block HTTP requests that require authentication. (12250)"
Then I found this MS support article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924374
and solved the problem by its workaround method 2: Enabling "Allow client authentication over HTTP".
But the article says this is less secure and not recommended, because "client credentials are sent in plain text".
I wonder why?
According to that article, the issue cause is, client insist on using HTTPS, but ISA can't handle.
So I guess, enabling "Allow client authentication over HTTP" means delegating the HTTPS handshake to the web server behind.
So everything is still encrypted by SSL, right?
Why client credentials are sent in plain text? Is that article wrong?