Security for Canadian Developers

IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 Credentials--Part Two

The ASP.NET User Principal (HTTPContext.User) clearly depends upon the Authentication Mechanism that you selected in IIS 6.0 "Authenication Tab" and if you use Integrated Windows Authentication then it is dependant on the IIS impersonation token that

IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 Credentials

The one area that many developers do not have good grasp at is how Authentication tokens from IIS 6.0 is passed to ASP.NET 2.0 and how these tokens can subsequently be used for Authorization in an ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application. The one question that arises

New Security Blog for Canadian Developers

Welcome to this new blog dedicated 100% to Security for Canadian Developers. This blog will feature posts on a wide variety of helpful information that Developers should know to help make your applications more secure. Helping me this year will be a team