Forms authentication not working

[mwhite]

Hi, I'm adding a security layer to a companies intranet pages. I have
created a login page, using the Asp.Net 2 login control, and am using
Forms Authentication. I have set the <formstimeout attribute to
5mins, as they don't want anyone to be able to view the secure pages
without logging in. It works fine when I build the project and run
through Visual Studio, redirecting to the login page after timeout.
However, since publishing the website and moving it to a server, the
timeout is now having no effect at all - coming back to the page after
20mins idle, you can click a link and it goes there, with no redirect.
I have tried closing the browser, and then opening it again - you can
simply type the url of a page in the secure section and it loads up,
without having to login again.

Any suggestions gratefully received!

Mat

[Robert Porter]

[JeffP]

Mat,

Although I'm using 1.1 Forms Auth I had a few gotcha's.....

Login.aspx FormsAuthentication.Initialize()

Although I have a login page, its purpose is to either login w/an ID or via
querystring passing in the ID.

My formsAuth method is contained in my Common.vb for reusability in other
web projects.

PageLoad event for all pages....

'Check security token
If Not Session("securityToken") Is Nothing Then
If Not CType(Session("securityToken"),
Common.SecurityToken).IsLoggedIn Then
Response.Redirect("./LogOut.aspx")
End If
Else : Response.Redirect("./LogOut.aspx")
End If

I'm not sure if this helps but in my searching there were many suggestions
that there may also be an issue w/the machine.config

HTH

JeffP....

<mw****@mbasys.co.ukwrote in message
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Hi, I'm adding a security layer to a companies intranet pages. I have
created a login page, using the Asp.Net 2 login control, and am using
Forms Authentication. I have set the <formstimeout attribute to
5mins, as they don't want anyone to be able to view the secure pages
without logging in. It works fine when I build the project and run
through Visual Studio, redirecting to the login page after timeout.
However, since publishing the website and moving it to a server, the
timeout is now having no effect at all - coming back to the page after
20mins idle, you can click a link and it goes there, with no redirect.
I have tried closing the browser, and then opening it again - you can
simply type the url of a page in the secure section and it loads up,
without having to login again.

Any suggestions gratefully received!

Mat

[mwhite]

Hi,
thanks for the reply. I found an article
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/05/ASPSec2/ that I think
explains the problem - basically, forms authentication does not apply
to .htm and .html files since they are not ASP.NET filetypes, so it
does not even see requests to the pages and therefore cannot act on
them. The site I'm working on is very old, and made entirely of .htm
files - my login page is the only .aspx file there is!

Mat

[JeffP]

Mat, Since it is htm, prehaps you could write an aspx wrapper for the entire
site and javaScript to check for isLoggedIn, or use a VB6 dll that checks
the cookie... good luck.... JeffP...

<mw****@mbasys.co.ukwrote in message
news:11**********************@b28g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...

Hi,
thanks for the reply. I found an article
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/05/ASPSec2/ that I think
explains the problem - basically, forms authentication does not apply
to .htm and .html files since they are not ASP.NET filetypes, so it
does not even see requests to the pages and therefore cannot act on
them. The site I'm working on is very old, and made entirely of .htm
files - my login page is the only .aspx file there is!

Mat