diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 31996f117..0a6ada8e4 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 target/
+.DS_STORE
 .idea/*
 *.iml
 .settings/*
 javadocs/*
 .classpath
-.project
\ No newline at end of file
+.project
+logs/
diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/crawler4j/crawler/authentication/AuthInfo.java b/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/crawler4j/crawler/authentication/AuthInfo.java
index b03fbbef3..568693bc0 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/crawler4j/crawler/authentication/AuthInfo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/crawler4j/crawler/authentication/AuthInfo.java
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
 public abstract class AuthInfo {
   public enum AuthenticationType {
     BASIC_AUTHENTICATION,
-    FORM_AUTHENTICATION
+    FORM_AUTHENTICATION,
+    NT_AUTHENTICATION
   }
 
   protected AuthenticationType authenticationType;
diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/crawler4j/crawler/authentication/NtAuthInfo.java b/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/crawler4j/crawler/authentication/NtAuthInfo.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..220538296
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/crawler4j/crawler/authentication/NtAuthInfo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package edu.uci.ics.crawler4j.crawler.authentication;
+
+import javax.swing.text.html.FormSubmitEvent.MethodType;
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+
+/**
+ * Authentication information for Microsoft Active Directory 
+ */
+public class NtAuthInfo extends AuthInfo {
+  private String domain;
+
+  public NtAuthInfo(String username, String password, String loginUrl, String domain) throws MalformedURLException {
+    super(AuthenticationType.NT_AUTHENTICATION, MethodType.GET, loginUrl, username, password);
+    this.domain = domain;
+  }
+
+  public String getDomain() {
+    return domain;
+  }
+
+  public void setDomain(String domain) {
+    this.domain = domain;
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/crawler4j/fetcher/PageFetcher.java b/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/crawler4j/fetcher/PageFetcher.java
index bf3a1fcdc..381efeea5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/crawler4j/fetcher/PageFetcher.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/crawler4j/fetcher/PageFetcher.java
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.net.InetAddress;
+import java.net.UnknownHostException;
 import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Date;
@@ -26,12 +28,14 @@
 
 import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
 
+import edu.uci.ics.crawler4j.crawler.authentication.NtAuthInfo;
 import org.apache.http.Header;
 import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
 import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
 import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
 import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
 import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
+import org.apache.http.auth.NTCredentials;
 import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
 import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
 import org.apache.http.client.CredentialsProvider;
@@ -145,12 +149,27 @@ private void doAuthetication(List<AuthInfo> authInfos) {
     for (AuthInfo authInfo : authInfos) {
       if (authInfo.getAuthenticationType() == AuthInfo.AuthenticationType.BASIC_AUTHENTICATION) {
         doBasicLogin((BasicAuthInfo) authInfo);
-      } else {
+      } else if (authInfo.getAuthenticationType() == AuthInfo.AuthenticationType.NT_AUTHENTICATION) {
+        doNtLogin((NtAuthInfo)authInfo);
+      }else {
         doFormLogin((FormAuthInfo) authInfo);
       }
     }
   }
 
+  private void doNtLogin(NtAuthInfo authInfo) {
+    logger.info("NT authentication for: " + authInfo.getLoginTarget());
+    HttpHost targetHost = new HttpHost(authInfo.getHost(), authInfo.getPort(), authInfo.getProtocol());
+    CredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
+    try {
+      credsProvider.setCredentials(new AuthScope(targetHost.getHostName(), targetHost.getPort()),
+              new NTCredentials(authInfo.getUsername(), authInfo.getPassword(), InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName(), authInfo.getDomain()));
+    } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
+      logger.error("Error creating NT credentials", e);
+    }
+    httpClient = HttpClients.custom().setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credsProvider).build();
+  }
+
   /**
    * BASIC authentication<br/>
    * Official Example: https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/httpclient/examples/org/apache/http/examples