diff --git a/src/main/java/com/trilead/ssh2/Connection.java b/src/main/java/com/trilead/ssh2/Connection.java
index 0de952a0..ad06d2fa 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/trilead/ssh2/Connection.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/trilead/ssh2/Connection.java
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 import java.net.SocketTimeoutException;
 import java.security.KeyPair;
 import java.security.SecureRandom;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Vector;
 
 import com.trilead.ssh2.auth.AuthenticationManager;
@@ -495,6 +497,37 @@ private void checkRequirements(String user)
 		}
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Returns the {@code SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_BANNER} messages sent by the server.
+	 * <p>
+	 * The server may send banners at any time before authentication completes
+	 * (typically used to display login notices or, in the case of Tailscale SSH,
+	 * a web URL the user must visit to finish authenticating). Banners received
+	 * during a blocking {@code authenticateWith*} call are accumulated and can
+	 * be read either while the call is in progress (from another thread) or
+	 * after it returns.
+	 *
+	 * @return list of banner strings in the order received, never {@code null};
+	 *         empty if no banners have been received or authentication has not
+	 *         been attempted yet.
+	 * @see com.trilead.ssh2.auth.AuthenticationManager#getBanners()
+	 */
+	public List<String> getBanners()
+	{
+		// Intentionally NOT synchronized on this Connection. The other authentication
+		// entry points (authenticateWithNone, authenticateWithPassword, ...) hold the
+		// Connection monitor for the entire duration of the blocking auth call. A
+		// caller that wants to display banners live — e.g. Tailscale SSH's web-login
+		// URL, which arrives in a banner BEFORE USERAUTH_SUCCESS — must be able to
+		// read them from another thread while that call is still blocked.
+		AuthenticationManager local = am;
+		if (local == null)
+		{
+			return Collections.emptyList();
+		}
+		return local.getBanners();
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Add a {@link ConnectionMonitor} to this connection. Can be invoked at any
 	 * time, but it is best to add connection monitors before invoking
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/trilead/ssh2/auth/AuthenticationManager.java b/src/main/java/com/trilead/ssh2/auth/AuthenticationManager.java
index 71c51163..b3963096 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/trilead/ssh2/auth/AuthenticationManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/trilead/ssh2/auth/AuthenticationManager.java
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ public class AuthenticationManager implements MessageHandler
 	List<byte[]> packets = new ArrayList<>();
 	boolean connectionClosed = false;
 
-	String banner;
+	List<String> banners = new ArrayList<>();
 
 	String[] remainingMethods = new String[0];
 	boolean isPartialSuccess = false;
@@ -114,7 +114,33 @@ byte[] getNextMessage() throws IOException
 
 			PacketUserauthBanner sb = new PacketUserauthBanner(msg, 0, msg.length);
 
-			banner = sb.getBanner();
+			synchronized (banners)
+			{
+				banners.add(sb.getBanner());
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns the {@code SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_BANNER} messages sent by the server.
+	 * The server may send banners at any point before authentication completes
+	 * (typically used to display login notices or, in the case of Tailscale SSH,
+	 * a web URL the user must visit to finish authenticating).
+	 * <p>
+	 * Returns a defensive snapshot, so the caller is free to iterate without
+	 * holding any locks. Synchronizes only on the {@code banners} list itself,
+	 * NOT on the {@code AuthenticationManager} or {@code Connection} monitor,
+	 * so it remains callable from another thread while a blocking
+	 * {@code authenticateWith*} call is in progress.
+	 *
+	 * @return list of banner strings in the order received, never {@code null};
+	 *         empty if the server has not sent any.
+	 */
+	public List<String> getBanners()
+	{
+		synchronized (banners)
+		{
+			return new ArrayList<>(banners);
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/trilead/ssh2/ConnectionTest.java b/src/test/java/com/trilead/ssh2/ConnectionTest.java
index 500270a8..3e4e7112 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/trilead/ssh2/ConnectionTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/trilead/ssh2/ConnectionTest.java
@@ -310,4 +310,14 @@ public void testSetAlgorithmMethods() {
 	String[] testKexAlgos = {"diffie-hellman-group1-sha1"}; // Basic DH group
 	connection.setKeyExchangeAlgorithms(testKexAlgos);
 }
+
+@Test
+public void testGetBannersReturnsEmptyBeforeAuthentication() {
+	// Before any authentication attempt, AuthenticationManager has not been created
+	// yet, so the accessor must return an empty list rather than throwing or
+	// returning null.
+	assertNotNull(connection.getBanners(), "getBanners() must never return null");
+	assertTrue(connection.getBanners().isEmpty(),
+			"getBanners() must be empty before authentication");
+}
 }