March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
11h 34m
English
ASP.NET provides its own authentication mechanism that comes into play after a request clears IIS (see Figure 6.1). ASP.NET authentication lets you add more flexibility and protection to your security implementation through four authentication and authorization options:
Windows authentication
Passport authentication
Forms authentication
No authentication (also called default or IIS authentication)
As with many other parameters in ASP.NET, you configure the authentication method by editing the Web.config application configuration file that resides in the application root folder. The code excerpt from this file included in Figure 6.6 displays the selected authentication options.
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