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From: Neil Gould on 30 Jun 2010 09:43 Hi, IIS6, classic ASP I some need insights into password-protected directories. What I want to accomplish is having a classic ASP script access and deliver files from a protected directory to client-side browsers. Is this possible? Are there specific IIS settings that affect or enable this beyond a basic "password protection" setting from the host's UI? TIA, Neil
From: Ken Schaefer on 1 Jul 2010 03:58 You could simply have a web page that asks for a password (using a form - if you use Windows AuthN then you ASP script will impersonate that user). You have have the files stored outside the website - just use the file system object to read in the files, if the is supposed to have access. Cheers Ken http://www.adOpenStatic.com/cs/blogs/ken "Neil Gould" <neil(a)myplaceofwork.com> wrote in message news:#pyK7nFGLHA.5472(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hi, > > IIS6, classic ASP > > I some need insights into password-protected directories. What I want to > accomplish is having a classic ASP script access and deliver files from a > protected directory to client-side browsers. > > Is this possible? > > Are there specific IIS settings that affect or enable this beyond a basic > "password protection" setting from the host's UI? > > TIA, > > Neil > >
From: Neil Gould on 1 Jul 2010 09:17 Hi Ken, Thanks for your response, but it seems that my question was poorly stated! The website has password access via form, but that is for users to access pages. It does not use Windows AuthN, but that may be one part of the question that I am asking. The host's UI has an option for "password protecting" directories, and if set, a screen pops up asking for name and password. Is this typically handled by AuthN? If I understand your answer, an ASP script can impersonate that user and supply the name and password, then deliver the files (they're PDFs)? The reason I'm trying to resolve this is that using ADODB.stream to deliver the files is painfully slow... Neil Ken Schaefer wrote: > You could simply have a web page that asks for a password (using a > form - if you use Windows AuthN then you ASP script will impersonate > that user). > > You have have the files stored outside the website - just use the file > system object to read in the files, if the is supposed to have access. > > Cheers > Ken > > http://www.adOpenStatic.com/cs/blogs/ken > > "Neil Gould" <neil(a)myplaceofwork.com> wrote in message > news:#pyK7nFGLHA.5472(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> Hi, >> >> IIS6, classic ASP >> >> I some need insights into password-protected directories. What I >> want to accomplish is having a classic ASP script access and deliver >> files from a protected directory to client-side browsers. >> >> Is this possible? >> >> Are there specific IIS settings that affect or enable this beyond a >> basic "password protection" setting from the host's UI? >> >> TIA, >> >> Neil
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