Full trust and automated log-in for 127.0.0.1?

[Randall Parker]

I am using Forms authentication for people who come to a web site over the internet.
But for people who are sitting right at the server and and using a browser on the
server I want to allow automated automatic log-in with full access.

Can one do this just thru Web.config? Can one use the fact that local users have an
IP address of 127.0.0.1 to authenticate them automatically? Or will they come in via
the web server's public IP address?

Is it any easier to do the automated trust for local users if the local users access
with URL:
http://127.0.0.1/MyPage.aspx
versus
http://www.somesiteurl.com/MyPage.aspx
?

 

[Daniel Fisher\(lennybacon\)]

Write a HttpModule that acts on AuthenticatRequest and uses the
FormsAuthentication API to log the local users in.