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

From: Datagrid Girl (datagridgirl@operamail.com)
Date: 07/25/02 

From: "Datagrid Girl" <datagridgirl@operamail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:13:46 -0500

I would imagine that there would be some type of performance hit for doing
this. I'd recommend creating a simple test to see what the performance
difference would actually be when mapping these files, it may be that the
performance difference is very minimal, only testing will show for sure.
Also, I'm not aware of any other (simple) way to protect this files as under
forms authorization.

Also, look at only mapping the the files you really need to be handled by
Asp.Net--are you sure you really need to protect those JPG and GIF files?
That might get expensive (performance-wise) quickly if your app is
graphic-intensive.

Datagrid Girl

"Laurent Allardin" <laurent@2k1soft.com> wrote in message
news:ueHBZg4MCHA.2372@tkmsftngp11...
> 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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