Clarify NegotiateAuthentication.IsAuthenticated post-failure behavior#12724
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The IsAuthenticated property returns true after the authentication exchange has finished, including in many post-negotiation failure cases (verified across the Windows, Unix, and ManagedSpnego PAL implementations in dotnet/runtime). The previous summary (successfully completed and the session was established) implied that a true value means successful authentication, which is misleading. Update the summary, value, and remarks to clarify that callers must inspect the NegotiateAuthenticationStatusCode returned by GetOutgoingBlob to determine actual success. Also remove a misleading `(see IsAuthenticated)` reference on TargetName that reinforced the same misconception. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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This PR updates the .NET API reference documentation for System.Net.Security.NegotiateAuthentication.IsAuthenticated to clarify that it reflects completion of the authentication exchange, not necessarily successful authentication, and directs callers to use the NegotiateAuthenticationStatusCode from GetOutgoingBlob to determine success.
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IsAuthenticatedsummary/value/remarks to describe completion semantics and how to determine actual success. - Adjusted
TargetNameremarks to avoid implyingIsAuthenticated == truemeans authentication succeeded.
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IsAuthenticatedproperty returns true after the authentication exchange has finished, including in many post-negotiation failure cases (verified across the Windows, Unix, andManagedSpnegoPAL implementations in dotnet/runtime). The previous summary (successfully completed and the session was established) implied that a true value means successful authentication, which is misleading.Update the summary, value, and remarks to clarify that callers must inspect the
NegotiateAuthenticationStatusCodereturned byGetOutgoingBlobto determine actual success.