Re: SSL and Forms Authentication

From: Justin (speedracer909_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:52:51 +0700

I've been trying to figure this out too, without luck. I just work around it
by
redirecting to a relative aspx page from the loginurl in web.config, then
do a response.redirect(https://www.host.com/login.aspx) from that. Messy
but it works

Justin

"Scott" <no_email_at_all> wrote in message
news:uBN4Zln9DHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I've seen this problem posted a few times around the 'net with no answer.
> Hopefully someone here can help.
>
> We have our website configured to use Forms Authentication. We want to
> secure the Login page ONLY using SSL. When a user goes to the site he is
> redirected to the Login page for authentication, but gets an error saying
> the resource is protected and they must use HTTPS:.
>
> That's ugly, since the redirect should be transparent to the user.
>
> When we setup the <forms> tag we have tried using the full path in the
> loginUrl property, including 'https://'. When we do this the user doesn't
> get the message about HTTPS, but he DOES get an NT Authentication login
> dialog instead.
>
> Thats even uglier and I'm not even sure why that happens.
>
> Documentation and books I've read allude to the abiltiy to secure a single
> folder or page using SSL and the login redirection works. Those same
> documents and books don't say HOW to make it work and we haven't been able
> to either.
>
> Is it even possible to do this? Has anyone here done it successfully?
>
> Scott L.
>
>

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