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

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.

--
Jesse Houwing
jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl

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?



"Jesse Houwing" <jesse.houwing@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message 
news:21effc90fba08c9aefc132f42cc@news.microsoft.com...

> 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.
>
> --
> Jesse Houwing
> jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl
>
>