Secure Folders

[Timbo]

Hello all,

I have created a secure folder on my web server and created a user and
password that can access it. So when you navigate to a page/file within
this folder the login box appears. Here's my question:

From a link on a form (outside the secure folder), can you send the user
name and password using code to access a page/file in the secure folder,
thus suppressing the login box?

I'm using ASP.NET (.NET Framework 2.0)

TIA

Tim

 

[Jesse Houwing]

Hello Timbo,

Hello all,

I have created a secure folder on my web server and created a user and
password that can access it. So when you navigate to a page/file
within this folder the login box appears. Here's my question:

From a link on a form (outside the secure folder), can you send the
user name and password using code to access a page/file in the secure
folder, thus suppressing the login box?

No, you cannot.

 

[Timbo]

Does anyone have any idea the method that should be used to secure from
un-authorised downloads of files?

I do have ASP.NET application and I am not using Authentication
(authentication mode="None"). Would this be the only method if I did use
Forms Authentication?