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File Denial : Steve C. Orr

Thursday, September 18 2008

A common web site requirement is the ability to share certain files with specific users. For example, customers who have purchased software or other digital assets from a web site should ideally be able to return to that site and re-download the file(s) any time they want. However, that user (and other users) must be prevented from downloading packages that they have not purchased. This article will not attempt to cover ASP.NET user authentication techniques since that topic is already thoroughly covered elsewhere. Instead this article will focus on how (and how not) to provide access to a file once it has been determined the user is indeed authorized to download it....

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File Denial : Steve C. Orr
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