limiting access to files with asp.net

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Daniel - 15 Oct 2005 00:49 GMT

limiting access to files with asp.net

is there any way i can make a file only accessible to certain users of my
website? my files are to large to copy to a temp directory and they are of
many types, .exe .xsl .xml etc. i want an href to each file but only allow
users who have the right login-info in their session variable to get to the
files in their directory. is there something built into .net for doing this?
do i need to do some kind of isapi filter and then stream them?

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Alvin Bruney - ASP.NET MVP - 17 Oct 2005 17:12 GMT

yup, you can view the web.config file for file access. also, msdn provides
some good help on file access

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> do i need to do some kind of isapi filter and then stream them?

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