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Craig asked on 01 Oct 2008, 03:15 AM

Hi, I have an interesting problem using Forms authentication mode with the Telerik Window. I'm using ASPNET AJAX Q1 2008:

    
            <add tagPrefix="asp" namespace="System.Web.UI" assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/> 
        
            <add tagPrefix="asp" namespace="System.Web.UI.WebControls" assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>

I'm building a site that starts on Default.aspx. This page uses a MasterPage on which have the link that opens the window:

    
            <a id="lnkLogin" href="">Login</a>

The Window that opens shows login_pop.aspx that performs the user authentication. The Terlerik Window controls on my Master page (which essentially is my Default.aspx page are:

    
            <telerik:RadScriptManager ID="RadScriptManager1" runat="server" ScriptMode="Release"> 
        
            </telerik:RadScriptManager> 
        
            <telerik:radwindowmanager ID="RadWindowManager1" runat="server"> 
        
            <windows> 
        
                <telerik:RadWindow ID="rwWindow" runat="server" Behavior="Default"  
        
                    Height="400px" InitialBehavior="Close" Left="" ReloadOnShow="true" 
        
                    NavigateUrl="login_pop.aspx" OpenerElementID="lnkLogin" 
        
                    style="display:none;" Top="" Width="400px"> 
        
                </telerik:RadWindow> 
        
            </windows> 
        
            </telerik:radwindowmanager>

In the process of building this site, I started without denying anybody. In other words, anyone could access the site and all the pages. And the Window worked exactly as I expected.

I then started adding my security. I want/need to use Forms authentication so in my Web.Config I specify what my default full accessible page is and deny all unauthorized users:

    
            <authentication mode="Forms"> 
        
               <forms name=".ASPXAUTH" loginUrl="Default.aspx" protection="All" path="/" /> 
        
            </authentication> 
        
            <authorization> 
        
              <deny users="?"/> 
        
            </authorization>

Now here's where you have to pay attention. In testing my authentication, I wanted to ensure I was working from a clean slate so I went into IE and killed all my Temporary Internet Files. I restart my browser to run my App and it bombs! I get:

Microsoft JScript runtime error: 'Telerik' is undefined

And my debugger stops on:

    
            $create(Telerik.Web.UI.RadWindow, {"clientStateFieldID":"ctl00_rwWindow_ClientState","formID":"aspnetForm","height":"400px","iconUrl":"","initialBehaviors":4,"left":"","minimizeIconUrl":"","name":"rwWindow","navigateUrl":"login_pop.aspx","openerElementID":"lnkLogin","reloadOnShow":true,"skin":"Default","top":"","width":"400px"}, null, null, $get("ctl00_rwWindow"));

So I start Googling away to find out what the problem is, with no luck. Only through trial and error do I discover that if I change my Web.Config to:

    
            <authorization> 
        
                <allow users="*"/> 
        
            </authorization>

then run the application - all is well again. And even if I set it back to:

    
            <authorization> 
        
                <deny users="?"/> 
        
            </authorization>

It will continue to work fine as long as I don't delete my Temporary Internet files.

One last thing, I have also put in my Web.Config the following code which is supposed to allow any user access to the login_pop.aspx page so it can be called from Default.aspx:

    
            <location path="login_pop.aspx"> 
        
               <system.web> 
        
                <authorization> 
        
                   <allow users="*"/> 
        
                </authorization> 
        
               </system.web> 
        
            </location>

Is there a problem with the way I'm implementing the Telerik Window? Or do I just need to figure out how to open up the Temporary Internet Files folder to Anonymous users? Any suggestions/comments are welcome.

Thanks,
Craig

Problems with Forms Authentication

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