User/Pwd asked when displaying Image

Hi All

I am creating a web page, which will have a lot of images on it. The images are stored on my sharepoint site, are included on the page using the following html tag:

<img src="https:\\myshptserver.com\ImagesLib\img1.jpg" />

The page has almost 40 images coming from sharepoint, all with the similar kind of html tags as above.

Now, the problem comes when the page is render and the images are loaded...each image to be loaded, first asks the credentials of the sharepoint server (which is usual) and then the image loads...the problem is since i have 40 images, it asks me to enter 40 times for each image, so if a user opens my page, he'll get doomed.

So, I want to remove this problem, how can I do so??

Thanks

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Originally Posted by codenamevirus

<img src="https:\\myshptserver.com\ImagesLib\img1.jpg" />

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Slashes are the wrong way..

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Now, the problem comes when the page is render and the images are loaded...each image to be loaded, first asks the credentials of the sharepoint server (which is usual) and then the image loads...the problem is since i have 40 images, it asks me to enter 40 times for each image, so if a user opens my page, he'll get doomed.

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Check your browser settings. It should cache the first authentication and use that for the remainder of the session.

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Originally Posted by SirDice

Slashes are the wrong way..


Check your browser settings. It should cache the first authentication and use that for the remainder of the session.

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Thanks for your answer. Maybe, I wasnt clear enough.

My site is open to all the public, and the password to the images wont be available to anyone except me, since I am the admin.

So, if anyone in this world, opens my site, I dont want that user/pwd prompt to show up at all, instead the user should be able to see all the images without any prompts, like it was viewing a normal site.

What I want is, a guidance how in asp.net or c#, can I add in the code, that will prevent all these prompts from coming at all.

Thanks

Ah.. Check the ACLs on the files, as this is usually the problem with IIS. Or it's a setting in sharepoint, I don't know enough about sharepoint to guide you.

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Originally Posted by codenamevirus

So, I want to remove this problem, how can I do so??

Thanks

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good luck with that

Is your sharepoint site windows auth or forms based?

It's sharepoint...it needs credentials but if it's windows auth, you might be able to trick it through IIS, but forms based auth, you might be able to pass credentials in through a web interface first. Have tried a few things like that and it turned into a major pain in the arse!

Never got it to work 100% forms based. IIS about 90% of the time

Check to ensure that the local userid that is defined for anonymous access has read access to the folder (as well as its content) that contains the images.

The userid is usually IUSR_servername. You can check by going to IIS, right click the virtual directory of the site, select the Directory Security tab. Ensure Anonymous access is selected and note the userid.

Then right click the folder that contains the images and ensure this userid has read access to the folder. Also check the privs on the actual images. They should be same. If not, there is an option at the folder level to propagate the settings to the contents of the folder.

That should do it.

Alternatively, you could impersonate by setting the user and pass in the webconfig. google impersonate IIS. There are several entries on MS Technet that show you how.

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Originally Posted by SirDice

Ah.. Check the ACLs on the files, as this is usually the problem with IIS. Or it's a setting in sharepoint, I don't know enough about sharepoint to guide you.

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ACLs, whats that? and how and what should I check in them?

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Originally Posted by dinowuff

Is your sharepoint site windows auth or forms based?

It's sharepoint...it needs credentials but if it's windows auth, you might be able to trick it through IIS,

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The web application that I have created uses form based authentication but the sharepoint site that I use, has windows based authentication, I know that I need pass the credentials, but how do I do it while accessing the images, so that the user doesnt see the authentication dialog boxes. Please see that I am using the full URL of the image in the <img src="full url of the image from shpt">, so please let me know how to proceed in this direction.

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Originally Posted by Cheap Scotch Ron

Check to ensure that the local userid that is defined for anonymous access has read access to the folder (as well as its content) that contains the images.

The userid is usually IUSR_servername. You can check by going to IIS, right click the virtual directory of the site, select the Directory Security tab. Ensure Anonymous access is selected and note the userid.

Then right click the folder that contains the images and ensure this userid has read access to the folder. Also check the privs on the actual images. They should be same. If not, there is an option at the folder level to propagate the settings to the contents of the folder.

That should do it.

Alternatively, you could impersonate by setting the user and pass in the webconfig. google impersonate IIS. There are several entries on MS Technet that show you how.

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The problem with sharepoint sites is you cant find out where's the physical folder, where the images are actually stored by sharepoint, as far as enabling the anonymous access, I'll check the folder permissions setting on shpt, and see if it helps from there. The Permissions setting includes what users are allowed to access the folder and what kind of access should be given, so guess thats what you want me try, right?

Impersonate using credentials that sharepoint will allow to access the images.

Basically, you are going to store the credentials in the web.config and use them when accessing the url on the sharepointserver.

See a more detailed example here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true

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Originally Posted by Cheap Scotch Ron

Impersonate using credentials that sharepoint will allow to access the images.

Basically, you are going to store the credentials in the web.config and use them when accessing the url on the sharepointserver.

See a more detailed example here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true

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Tried that...still getting the same error. I think its because the request for the images is sent from the client machine when the page is getting rendered, rather than the server where the application is hosted. So, I guess impersonation is not the solution.

codenamevirus:

Following Cheap Scotch Ron link, impersonation is probably the only way you're going to "fool" your form based app.

ASP impersonation isn't the easiest or cleanest way to do things, but then share point work "out of the box" and really doesn't work when you modify anything.

I'm out on this one. Sorry I can't help any more. Honestly the way I handle these situations is to keep mucking about with IIS and ASP until I get it right.

Hi all,

After brainstorming for weeks and trying and experimenting a lot of things, I was able to develop a solution. I created a dedicated HTTPHandler for the same and which internally used the WebClient .net library to get the image for me. And voila, it was christmas.

Its working without giving any authentication boxes.