Starting a file transfer...

Hey, I'm ussing a session object to password-protect my pages... I don't want someone to be able to just navigate to the URL of a file so I'd like to, via a response, programatically initiate a file transfer ("secure" file downloads)... any idea how this could be done?

You can use the web.config to protect your site. It would be much easier IMO.

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Originally posted by DevGrp
You can use the web.config to protect your site. It would be much easier IMO.

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How?

Here are some links to get you started.

http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickst...formsauth.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...entication.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...lusersfile.asp

Thanks, but how can I use forms authentication to protect against someone just typing in the URL of the "secure" file and downloading it?

Use the web.config file to protect the directory that the files are in. If a user is not authenticated then wont be able to download the file.

I know I'm digging up a really old post here but ... :]

I've been playing with the web.config file to restrict access (forms autentication) to a set of .pdf files, I can restrict people accessing .aspx files in a certain directory but it just ignores me for pdf file types.

Do I have to do something to so that .pdf will go through the same routes as the .aspx ?

Cheers,

Gary :bigyello: