How can I get the logon name?

[Mystery]

I'm using Basic Authentication for my web site - not great I know but I'm
having to support devices like the Nokia 9210i which dosn't seem to like the
digest information for windows domain servers.

The question is that I would like to be able to somehow capture that logon
username/id so that I can use it within the web site to track changes made
by the user. I've thought about switching off authentication all together
and writing my own logon asp page (query to an SQL database or something and
then store the result in a session variable), but if I can somehow capture
and access the basic authentication information, it would save me some work.

I'm using good'ol ASP and not asp.net.

Thx.

[Bob Barrows]

Mystery wrote:

> I'm using Basic Authentication for my web site - not great I know but
> I'm having to support devices like the Nokia 9210i which dosn't seem
> to like the digest information for windows domain servers.
>
> The question is that I would like to be able to somehow capture that
> logon username/id so that I can use it within the web site to track
> changes made by the user. I've thought about switching off
> authentication all together and writing my own logon asp page (query
> to an SQL database or something and then store the result in a
> session variable), but if I can somehow capture and access the basic
> authentication information, it would save me some work.
>

With Basic Authentication, Request.ServerVariables("AUTH_USER") should
contain the name of the authenticated user.

HTH,
Bob Barrows

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