Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations gkittelson on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Session Variables and IIS5 / Win2000 security problem

Status
Not open for further replies.

token

Technical User
Jan 29, 2002
1
US
Here's a doozy. I have written an application that relies on a couple of Session Variables that define the path and new name of a file that is being uploaded using the SA FileUpload object.

When an administator of the web server is authenticated (using Intigrated Windows Auth) it works great, and the variables persist. However, when a member of another group attempts an upload, the session vars get dropped, making the name of the file clear from memory and breaks the app.

Here's the fruity part...just as a test, I changed the authentication method for the virtual directory from Intigrated Windows (and yes all of the users in the group have the right level of access) to Clear Text and the Session vars persist, the users can upload files and the site works.

Is there a correlation between session vars and security...I gotta know before I toss my web server out the window.

token
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top