impact of mapping .??? to ASP.NET ISAPI???

From: Laurent Allardin (laurent@2k1soft.com)
Date: 07/25/02 

From: "Laurent Allardin" <laurent@2k1soft.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 23:06:04 -0400

Hello,

I am wondering what the impact of mapping .??? (JPG files, GIF, DOC, XLS,
PDF, PPT, ZIP etc...) to the aspnet_isapi.dll?

I want to map those files to the ASP.NET ISAPI to be able to use the ASP.NET
Form Security with those files (is there any other way...). Because it is
good to secure ASPX pages, but those pages contains images, links to PDF
etc... If you don't secure those files, you don't have a truly secure
solution.

So what are the impact of doing that for the Web Server? Any security isue,
performance issue... etc...

I know that ISP don't like mapping those files... but tell me if there is a
good reason? Also tell me if there would be other easy solution to help me
with this problem (I know I could use a page like
Files.aspx?file=securefolder\test.doc, and render the file with the good
MIME type, but that's hard to implement, I would need to change every
links....)

Any answers???

Thank you!

Laurent Allardin, MCSD
2K1Soft Solutions inc.
laurent@2k1soft.com
www.2k1soft.com

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