Re: Bypass forms authentication

From: Colin Basterfield (colinbasterfield_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 20:55:19 +1300

Hi Chris,

Did you get around this problem, because I have a similar thing. I have a
Login page, which does the Forms Authentication, set up in the web.config,
and has the Deny thing going on, so that all works. Now however I want to
add a button on the login page which allows New Users to be entered on the
system via a New Users page, but of course it loops round and round, between
the two pages, and because there are RequiredFieldValidators on the New
Users page it fails.

So wondered if you had got around it?

Many thanks
Colin

"CJF" <chrisf@unr.edu> wrote in message
news:e6pU9xvAEHA.220@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi Arvind,
> I tried using the location element and it still loops between pages.
I
> placed the location block in my project's web.config and when that didn't
> work, I put it in my subfolder's web.config. I also tried specifying a
> specific file. I'm wondering if it's the ordering of events that still
> causing it, since I'm doing the db connect on the prerequest event. I
don't
> know at what stage the web.config file is interpreted.
> I'll have to find some other way to work around that.
>
> "Arvind P Rangan" <arvind99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:egmluOpAEHA.712@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Hi Chris,
> > Add this after the first </sytem>
> > before </configuration>
> > <location path="FOLDERNAME">
> > <system.web>
> > <compilation defaultLanguage="vb/c#" debug="true" />
> > <authorization>
> > <allow users="*"/>
> > </authorization>
> > </system.web>
> > </location>
> > Check it out This Works.
> > Arvind
> > "CJF" <chrisf@unr.edu> wrote in message
> > news:up$W7phAEHA.1796@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > My application uses forms-based authentication.
> > > In my .NET project I have a subfolder to store forms that display
> > > user-friendly error messages to the user.
> > > I also have an http module to handle prerequests for creating my
> database
> > > objects and connections. If the database connection fails I want the
> user
> > > to be redirected to one of my error pages. The problem is if the
> > connection
> > > fails before the user has an opportunity to authenticate then the user
> > gets
> > > redirect to the error page, which in turn redirects them to the
sign-in
> > > page, which in turn fails to connect to the db and redirects them to
the
> > > error page (and round and round we go!). I created a web.config file
> for
> > my
> > > subfolder and set the authorization to allow all users, but it's not
> > > allowing the user to see the error page and still invokes forms
> > > authentication by using the authentication and authorization settings
in
> > the
> > > parent web.config file. If I go to the error page by typing in the
URL
> > > directly it works, but it doesn't work if I redirect in the code.
> > >
> > > How can I allow redirection to a page in the project and bypass the
> > > authentication on a subfolder or form basis? Should the child
> web.config
> > > file override the parent and allow all users if I choose?
> > >
> > > Thx, Chris
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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