Site Protection Simplified Properties: Login Form

The Site Protection simplified Login form allow to easily setup the login form type (Basic authentication or HTML login form) and properties. All settings applied in this configuration window may be view and changed via the Security Handler Configuration and the User Database Configuration.

Basic Authentication is the HTTP native authentication scheme supported by all browsers. When credentials are required the browser displays a small popup box:


                     Basic login popup box


DAF also supports users log-in using a HTML login form located in a regular HTML file. This option offers many features not available with basic authentication.


                         HMTL login form


The implementation of the HTML login form was completely redesigned (compared to DAF 4.X). Login forms are now much easier to customize, a cookie free mode is available (URL emdebbed), and the server returns immediately the HTML code without redirection.
 

The [Site Protection Simplified Properties] window :

• may be displayed automatically upon the Site Protection Wizard completion
• or, with the DAF Configuration tool:
  - expand your computer [MyComputer (local computer)],
  - expand [IIS Sites Security Handlers]
  - Right click on a site name and choose [Simplified Properties]

 

With these options, the Login Form is part of a regular HTML page and support client session state.

With option [HTML Login form, cookie] the session state is handled via cookies, with option [HTML Login form, cookie free] the session state is handled via a identification string emdebbed in the url.

See also: HTML Login form documentation