Re: Passing credentials to web app

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On Feb 14, 3:57 pm, danspama...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hey everyone,

I have an ASP.NET web app that will eventually be incorporated in
SharePoint 2007. I want users to launch the web app out of SharePoint,
and I want their credentials to be sent to the web app so it can know
who they are without requiring them to log in again.

I've looked through the archives, and I know this has been addressed
before, but I still don't have a good sense of how to do it. I've seen
the advice to make sure the web.config file is set properly
(impersonation enabled and anonymous access disabled), but how do I
actually pass the credentials?

Should I build the username and password into the URL (e.g.,http://..../index.aspx&user=user_name&pwd=password)?Should I set a
cookie? Should I build my own web service to accept the credentials
and trigger a new sessions? Is there an easier way?

I'm pretty new to SharePoint, so if someone could point me to a
tutorial or step-by-step instructions on how to do this, I'd be
eternally grateful.

Thanks,

-Dan

I guess it depends on how you're authenticating your SharePoint users,
and how you want to authenticate your custom web application users.

Are you using Windows Authentication? Forms?

Richard
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