Hello,
(yes I will continue to use the FPE (with RTR) - I love them with Expression Web and I will still not change.)
Just an idea, I would like to password protect downloads.
On my old 2003 Webserver it worked like this:
1. PDFs in a folder outside the web
2. Form on the web: Username/Password
3. If ok: Streaming the PDF --> works very efficiently also with large PDFs
On my II7 7.5 now, I have a problem with PDFs larger than 5MB (tried to change timeout/chunksize/ etc ... did not wok yet - will try more).
Now my question:
I created a subweb and disallow annonymous browsing. When I open the subweb, IIS is checking for username and password (this is working and ok). Can I somehow send the username and password to this popup window from the IIS, so I can use a form with username / passwort to restrict the acces to ths subweb?
In the IIS there is the Forms Authentication, but this seems to be for aspx not classic ASP. (Or should I mingle ASP/ASPX). Thanks for any idea (would prefer to stay with ASP)
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I tried the Form Authentification with ASPX ... this works very good. The only problem: It makes all my .aspx files secure (something I did also with my .ASP pages and Sessions), but it does not protect the PDF files. I used this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xdt4thhy%28v=vs.100%29.aspx