Passing Credentials to IIS

[GRB]

My webiste has integrated windows authentication. I need to pass a clients
credentials (username, password) to my site without the login pop up.
I send the client to an anonymous page, get an encrypted cookie and read it
to get the credentials. Then redirect the client to my web site.

How can I pass the credentials to IIS and avoid the login pop up?

Any help or related web sites is appreciated.

[Paul Clement]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 06:55:04 -0800, GRB <GR*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

¤ My webiste has integrated windows authentication. I need to pass a clients
¤ credentials (username, password) to my site without the login pop up.
¤ I send the client to an anonymous page, get an encrypted cookie and read it
¤ to get the credentials. Then redirect the client to my web site.
¤
¤ How can I pass the credentials to IIS and avoid the login pop up?
¤
¤ Any help or related web sites is appreciated.

You avoid the login pop up by using Integrated Windows authentication. However, there is no use of
encrypted cookies (containing user credentials) with this level of authentication so I'm not sure
why you would need one.
Paul
~~~~
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)

[GRB]

I guess I didn't state the question properly. I've made things confusing you
by telling you how I get the credentials. So lets try again.

How can I programatically log into a web site that has windows integrated
authentication without using the login pop up window or passing it in the
url? I have the username and password.

"Paul Clement" wrote:

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 06:55:04 -0800, GRB <GR*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

¤ My webiste has integrated windows authentication. I need to pass a clients
¤ credentials (username, password) to my site without the login pop up.
¤ I send the client to an anonymous page, get an encrypted cookie and read it
¤ to get the credentials. Then redirect the client to my web site.
¤
¤ How can I pass the credentials to IIS and avoid the login pop up?
¤
¤ Any help or related web sites is appreciated.

You avoid the login pop up by using Integrated Windows authentication. However, there is no use of
encrypted cookies (containing user credentials) with this level of authentication so I'm not sure
why you would need one.
Paul
~~~~
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)

[Paul Clement]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:51:36 -0800, GRB <GR*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

¤ I guess I didn't state the question properly. I've made things confusing you
¤ by telling you how I get the credentials. So lets try again.
¤
¤ How can I programatically log into a web site that has windows integrated
¤ authentication without using the login pop up window or passing it in the
¤ url? I have the username and password.
¤

OK, I think I understand your question, but the key issue here is that Integrated Windows security
handles the authentication automatically. A user name and password cannot be provided.

If you want to supply a user name and password w/o a login dialog or integrated security then you
should be using Forms authentication (Anonymous access).
Paul
~~~~
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)