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Hi,

I've been searching the web and google for a while now, and can't find
how to do exactly what I want to do. I'm sorry if this has been
answered before, I just cant find it.

My idea is to have a folder /root/public/secure which has a web.config
file in it like so
<authorization>
<deny users="?" />
</authorization>

Now in that folder, protected.aspx is protected, but protected.pdf is
not protected.

I use
<httpHandlers>
<add verb="*" path="*.mdb" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler"
/>
</httpHandlers>

to protect my .mdb. But this dis-allows downloading. I want to allow
authenticated downloading. Something like
System.Web.HttpAuthenticatedHandler. But I can not find that handler.

Any ideas? I hear of people using response.write, but I don't feel that
is what I want to do.

Thanks for any help/hints you can give

StaticFileHandler, in conjunction with the right metabase mappings in IIS,
is what you want.

Joe K.

--
Joe Kaplan-MS MVP Directory Services Programming
Co-author of "The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming"
http://www.directoryprogramming.net
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"cjburkha" <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I've been searching the web and google for a while now, and can't find
> how to do exactly what I want to do. I'm sorry if this has been
> answered before, I just cant find it.
>
> My idea is to have a folder /root/public/secure which has a web.config
> file in it like so
> <authorization>
> <deny users="?" />
> </authorization>
>
> Now in that folder, protected.aspx is protected, but protected.pdf is
> not protected.
>
> I use
> <httpHandlers>
> <add verb="*" path="*.mdb" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler"
> />
> </httpHandlers>
>
> to protect my .mdb. But this dis-allows downloading. I want to allow
> authenticated downloading. Something like
> System.Web.HttpAuthenticatedHandler. But I can not find that handler.
>
> Any ideas? I hear of people using response.write, but I don't feel that
> is what I want to do.
>
> Thanks for any help/hints you can give
>

Great, thank you for that tip.
Joe Kaplan (MVP - ADSI) wrote:
> StaticFileHandler, in conjunction with the right metabase mappings in IIS,
> is what you want.
>
> Joe K.
>
> --
> Joe Kaplan-MS MVP Directory Services Programming
> Co-author of "The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming"
> http://www.directoryprogramming.net
> --
> "cjburkha" <> wrote in message
> news: ups.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been searching the web and google for a while now, and can't find
> > how to do exactly what I want to do. I'm sorry if this has been
> > answered before, I just cant find it.
> >
> > My idea is to have a folder /root/public/secure which has a web.config
> > file in it like so
> > <authorization>
> > <deny users="?" />
> > </authorization>
> >
> > Now in that folder, protected.aspx is protected, but protected.pdf is
> > not protected.
> >
> > I use
> > <httpHandlers>
> > <add verb="*" path="*.mdb" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler"
> > />
> > </httpHandlers>
> >
> > to protect my .mdb. But this dis-allows downloading. I want to allow
> > authenticated downloading. Something like
> > System.Web.HttpAuthenticatedHandler. But I can not find that handler.
> >
> > Any ideas? I hear of people using response.write, but I don't feel that
> > is what I want to do.
> >
> > Thanks for any help/hints you can give
> >