Is is possible to use forms based authentication in a mixed asp / asp.net
environment?  If so, can someone give me some ideas what I would have to do
in my classic .asp pages to get them to function with forms-based
authentication?  Code examples would be greatly appreciated.

Cross posting since I had no reply yet from
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.component_services
Hi all,
I have an ASP.NET app and a Serviced Component that runs within a COM+

i wrote a couple of DPAPI tools (extended the ms impl, a command line tool .. and a ASP.NET frontend) - just upload the single aspx file to the server and you can encrypt whatever strings you like with DPAPI...don't forget to secure that page (or better delete it when you are ...

Some years ago we were told by Microsoft that Frontpage Server Extension
outside the firewall could be a possible security hole. Maybe some has
invented a password guessing program that use Frontpage Server Extension.
Is Frontpage Server Extension still a security problem?

I'd like to use an encrypted database connection string.  I'd also like use
an encrypted set of customer tables with a symmetric algorithm (and a secure
symmetric key)  generated by .Net  in my sql server database from asp.net
code stored on a shared host asp.net server.

How can I check to see if a user has previously been authenticated with
FormsAuthentication on a page that is defined as viewable by everyone
in web.config?
For example, index.aspx and login.aspx allows everyone to see it via

I am new to ASP.NET and have been developing a database driven website,
which until now has been painless. The one roadblock I am encountering is
using the login control.
What I would like to do is have a login page where a user enters their login

Can anyone help?
We have an internal web application which uses a proxy to handle user
authentication.
Sessions, and Authentication are handles by a client side cookie.

I'm writing a webpart which is supposed to connect to a Webserice in our
interanet.I am using "RSService.Credentials =
System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;"to Authenticate to the
webservice.but it dosn't work.why?

Has anyone know how to do window authentication against ADAM users?
Thanks for any reply
Ann

What is a GUID exactly. Is it a unique identifier that the environment
assigns you or does it take your password and encrypt it? Does it
correspond with a value in the database for validation (such as a
password field)?

I think i've googled to the end of the internet, but just can't find any
resources to tell me how to customize the glorious error message that says:
Server Error in '/Code' Application.
A potentially dangerous request.form value was detected from the

Hi
I'm trying to access an xml document outside my site root to do some
manipulation and I'm getting an error (on the while statement):
The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.

I was just looking over a few samples of role based security in combination
with forms based authentication. The samples I find seem to store an encrypted
list of roles in a cookie like this:
(Code snippet taken from Code Project article by Heath Stewart)

I want to create a virtual directory when a user has filled a form on an
ASP.net page. It works well on my dev server, but when I try it on my
production server, it fails. I got this error:
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80070005): Access is denied