Re: Is it possible to do Authentication with ASP.NET / C# over IIS ?

From: John Oakes (john_at_networkproductions.net)
Date: 02/13/04 

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:37:42 -0500

I usually do a binary send to send files to users with permissions. This
way you can store the files in a protected folder that none of the users can
access directly, but your webapp can stream them to users with correct
permissions.

-John Oakes

"Martin Strojek" <martin@strojek.de> wrote in message
news:60c8cd62.0402110828.1c5fa305@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> I try to solve a problem: Some folder on an IIS Webserver should be
> protected with username and password. So I switched off anonymous
> access and do Authentication. So far so good. But I want to have a SQL
> database with the users which are allowed to login and just ONE System
> account who is allowed to login to the protected folder. So what I
> want to do is:
> Make a login page and check Username and password against the entries
> in the sql.
> Not the problem but is it possible to do an authentication with the
> script with the windows account after successful checking against the
> sql user so that the script can send a http header with the file
> location?
>
> Step by step:
> 1. Login page
> 2. Check login against sql data
> 3. Store success and show filenames, click on a filename
> 3. Success -> Authenticate via script with windows user who has access
> to the folder which is protected and contains the files.
> 4. Send header information with the filepath to download
>
> For some suggestions I would be thankful
>
>
> Regards
> Martin Strojek
> martin@strojek.de

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