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Restricting access to web accessible content

MrChad

MrChad

Lifer
My company hosts some web portal sites that allow customers to access web-based content. Unfortunately, the way that it's currently configured, you can anonymously access the web-based content without logging into the portal site. What we want to do is restrict access to the content server so that some kind of authentication occurs behind the scenes if and only if a user successfully logs into the portal site.

Both the portal and content server run on Windows 2000 w/ IIS5. We must support visitors using Internet Explorer 5 and Netscape 4.x 🙂(). I know that Microsoft Site Server (now replaced by Commerce Server) was able to accomplish this task, but Commerce Server seems like overkill, especially since we will only be using the authentication portion. Does anyone have any other ideas for accomplishing this? Thanks for your suggestions.
 
You could use the REFERRER (or REFERER) header of the request to be sure that people go through the portal site. If they don't just redirect to the portal.
 
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