Thanks for the reply Martin.
the error "you are not authorized". The user would then only be able
Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@t-online.de> wrote in message news:<ub5uREBuDHA.1512@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> Angelo Vargheese wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to retrieve XML created by ASP pages on different servers
> > and display them on a single ASP.Net page.
> >
> > I was planning to use the XMLDocument and XMLResolver objects like
> > below:
> >
> > xmlResolver.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials
> > xmlDoc = New XmlDocument
> > xmlDoc.XmlResolver = xmlResolver
> >
> > Try
> > xmlDoc.Load(URL) '
> > Catch ex As Exception
> > Throw ex
> > End Try
> >
> >
> > The URLs are secured using integrated windows authentication. When I
> > connect to the page I get the exception "The remote server returned an
> > error: (401) Unauthorized". But I can use the URL in IE and it
> > displays the XML properly.
> >
> > Also if I change the line
> > xmlResolver.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials
> > to
> > xmlResolver.Credentials = New NetworkCredential _
> > ("myid", "mypassword", "mydomain")
> > the code works without a problem.
> >
> > I don't want to hard code the credentials in my code.
> > I am not sure if I am using the objects correctly.
> > If anybody knows what's wrong with the code or a better way to pass
> > through user credentials it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> You can set up a Web.config file for your ASP.NET application and store
> application specific data like the credentials there. That avoids
> hardcoding the credentials in the code.
>
> Here is an example file
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <configuration>
> <appSettings>
> <add key="god" value="Kibo" />
> </appSettings>
> </configuration>
>
> You can add any data needed with further <add> elements.
> Then inside your ASP.NET code you need to import SystemConfiguration
> and then you can read
> ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["god"]
> as in the following example
>
> <%@ Page Language="C#" %>
> <%@ Import Namespace="System.Configuration" %>
> <script runat="server">
> void Page_Load () {
> string appKey = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["god"];
> if (appKey != null) {
> aLabel.InnerText = appKey;
> }
> }
> </script>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>reading application settings</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <p>
> app key is
> <span id="aLabel" runat="server"></span>
> </p>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> The IIS server is not serving Web.config files to the browser.
>
> You can find more about Web.config at
