Can you find out which web.config contained your setting?

D

daokfella

I have a custom web.config section similar to the following:

<CustomAuthSettings attr1="" attr2="">
<Locations RedirectUrl="Invalid.aspx">
<add Path="test.aspx" Roles="1,2,3" Permissions="4,5,6" />
</Locations>
</CustomAuthSettings>

Everything seems to work just fine. When I have config files in nested
folders, Attr1 and Attr2 of the CustomAuthSettings section correctly
show the values of the "closest" config file. In addition, all
locations exist in my collection from ALL config files up the folder
tree. This seems like the behavior I want. However, I have no clue
from which web.config file the location came from. I need to know this
information because I want to correctly figure out the resolved path
of each location's path attribute.

Is it possible to ascertain this information? I've been snooping
around the ConfigurationElement class with no luck.

Thanks!

Jason
 
G

Gaurav Vaish \(a.k.a. MasterGaurav\)

tree. This seems like the behavior I want. However, I have no clue
from which web.config file the location came from. I need to know this
information because I want to correctly figure out the resolved path
of each location's path attribute.
Click to expand...

Simple Answer: No.

The ConfigurationManager gives the unified result.


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D

daokfella

That sucks. My application has defined roles and permissions. I use
ASP.Net authentication to lock out folders and files by roles using
the <authorization> section. My problem is that I'd like to extend the
security so I could also lock out folders and pages by permissions. I
figured I'd still use the <authorization> section for role-based
security, but if I wanted to grant access to users based on a
permission (permissions are groups into roles), I could use my own
config section. I would modify my Master page to read the config to
see if the page or folder was being restricted by permissions. I'd
then check my user's profile to see if they indeed had that
permission. I had this in mind:

<CustomAuthSettings>
<Locations RedirectUrl="AccessDenied.aspx">
<add Path="Page1.aspx" Permissions="Perm1, Perm2" />
<add Path="Page2.aspx" Permissions="Perm1" />
</Locations>
</CustomAuthSettings>

Of course, I could write code in each individual page to check for a
specific set of permissions, but having it in the web.config along
with the <authentication> section made better sense for
maintainability. I can still get this to work, but only at a single
folder level.

The ElementInformation.Source property is NOT null if the <location>
existed in the web.config from the same directory. This sort of gets
me where I want to be. But it would be ideal to be able to set
security up the folder tree (e.g., path="subfolder/default.aspx").

Any other ideas?

Jason
 
J

Juan T. Llibre

re:
!> I can still get this to work, but only at a single folder level.

Couldn't you try adding a setting to the AppSettings section,
of each web.config you have, which contains the name of the directory it's in ?

i.e. :

<appSettings>
<add key="directory" value="directory_name" />
</appSettings>

Then, it's easy to query the current web.config, or any web.config above it in the application's directory tree,
for the data you want, coupled with the directory's name (presumably so you can can modify it, right ?).





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D

daokfella

Patrice,

I think this is just what I need. I'll just reconfigure my custom
settings section to something like this:

<CustomAuthSettings RedirectUrl="AccessDenied.aspx"
Permissions="Perm1,Perm2" />

and place it in a <location> section. Thanks.

Jason
 
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