Help with Login - RESOLVED

Hey everyone. I am finishing up on a project I have for school and the last thing that remains is getting my webform to differentiate between and admin and an employee. Basically I have a login and password box that checks against a database and redirects you to either the admin page or the employee page. It works great so far.

The only problem though is that I have no idea how to stop someone from just having to type the webform name and bypassing the login? Can anybody give me some advice on the easiest simplest method to do this?

why dont u have a username and password ( login form) and check if the user and pass exist in ur database or not and if the user name is admin go to admin form else go to employee form

thats exactly how i got it so far and it works. Problem is that if someone wanted to they could just load their browser up and type http://www.whatever.com/admin.aspx without even having to log in

You probably want to be using Forms Authentication

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/110701-1.shtml

yeap just realized that. So far I've been using cookies but i ran across a few more problems.

This is part of my code from the button. Basically A means admin and B means employee.

If str1 = txt1 And str2 = txt2 And txt3 = "A" Then
Response.Cookies("ckusername").Value = 1
Response.Cookies("ckusername").Expires=DateTime.Now.AddDays(1)
Response.Redirect("admin.aspx")


ElseIf str1 = txt1 And str2 = txt2 And txt3 = "B" Then
Response.Cookies("ckusername").Value = 2
Response.Redirect("employee.aspx")
End If


I'm trying to get it so that it will only an admin to access a certain page or vise versa only if they got the correct value. On the admin page that I want employees to stay out I've added this code to the form load.

Dim objckusername As HttpCookie
objckusername = Request.Cookies("ckusername")
If objckusername.Value = 1 Then
//continue loading page

ElseIf objckusername.Value = 2 or objckusername.Value = NOTHING Then
Response.Redirect("main.aspx") //back to login page
End If

This code seems to be working fine after I log in as the employee and try to get into the admin page cause it kicks me back to the main page as it should cause i don't have the correct value in my cookie.

The problem right now is that say I choose to skip login and type the direct web address to say the admin page without logging in, instead of getting redirected back to main I get an error.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Source Error:


Line 42: Dim objckusername As HttpCookie
Line 43: objckusername = Request.Cookies("ckusername")
Line 44: If objckusername.Value = 1 Then
Line 45:
Line 46:

VB Code:

'Assigning the value can be done in one line
Dim objckusername As HttpCookie = Request.Cookies("ckusername")
 
'Assume that if objckUserName is nothing the cookie has not been set, so we redirect to the login page.
If Not IsNothing(objckuUserName) AndAlso objckusername.Value = 1 Then
'//continue loading page (Why are you using C# style comments?)
 
Else ' shouldn't require the else if...
Response.Redirect("main.aspx") '//back to login page
End If

Must use AndAlso because the And Operator compares both statements even if the first is false.

Everything is working great now. I did some more reading on how cookies work and started to understand them more. Once i realized what an idiot i was I started working on repairing the code. This is how it works now.

Button Code after checking database:
If str1 = txt1 And str2 = txt2 And txt3 = "A" Then

Response.Cookies("ckuseradmin").Value = Request.Form("txtLogin")
Response.Cookies("ckuseradmin").Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1)
Response.Redirect("admin.aspx")

ElseIf str1 = txt1 And str2 = txt2 And txt3 = "B" Then
Response.Cookies("ckuseremployee").Value = Request.Form("txtLogin")
Response.Cookies("ckuseremployee").Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1)
Response.Redirect("employee.aspx")
End If



Page Validator to see if person is authorized on Admin Page:

Dim objckusername As HttpCookie
objckusername = Request.Cookies("ckuseradmin")
If objckusername Is Nothing Then
Response.Redirect("main.aspx")
Else
............
End If

Figured I'd also kill 2 birds with one stone and store the username in there just in case I design another page that needs to check that username with other info.

Thanks a lot everyone for taking the time to help.