Forms Authentication and requireSSL, what's the recommended best practice

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    Default Forms Authentication and requireSSL, what's the recommended best practice

    I have an ASP.NET 1.1 Web app and am now implementing SSL. It used
    forms authentication. Everything works fine but I get unexpected(by me)
    behavior when I set the requireSSL in the config file.

    My scenario is, I want to login securely in a secure directory and then
    redirect to the home page of the site. Pretty standard. If they are
    logged in, then display a header bar with a few menu items such as
    "Profile", etc. I am checking the Request.IsAuthenticated and if it is
    true, I show the header bar. Well, IsAuthenticated is false when I'm
    not under the SSL directory so it doesn't display my header bar. What's
    the recommended way of doing this kind of common operation. I could
    just set a Session variable when I login and display the menu if that
    session variable is set. Is there a better way??
    Thanks,

    Mike Maddox
    Creative Journey Consulting

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    Default Re: Forms Authentication and requireSSL, what's the recommended best practice

    Anyone have any ideas? Since the Auth cookie is only passed when I'm
    under SSL, what about the Session cookie. If I set a value in SESSION
    to signify that I logged in, wouldn't that work? Am Imissing something??

    mikemad Guest

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