Forms authentication failed for the request

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework

14 Mar 2006 2:36 PM

Bill Long

I have a web application that was developed for .NET 1.1. It uses forms
authentication and a custom handler for jpg and gif files so I have the
approprate extension mappings. I have some directories that are excluded from
the handler by the web config file located in the directory.

Web.config in root directory

   <httpHandlers>
      <add verb="*" path="*.jpg" type="blah, blah" />
     <add verb="*" path="*.gif" type="blah, blah" />
    </httpHandlers>

Web.config in excluded directory

    <httpHandlers>
       <remove verb="*" path="*.jpg" />
       <remove verb="*" path="*.gif" />
    </httpHandlers>

All works quite well.

I ported it to .NET 2.0 running on a Windows 2000 server. Again all works
well.

I moved it to my internet provider's server (Windows 2003) and the handler
seems to work well, but images in the excluded directory do not display. I
log entry into the handler and it is not being entered for the images that
will not display.

The event log on the server shows this error.

Show quote

> Event code: 4005
> Event message: Forms authentication failed for the request. Reason: The
> ticket supplied has expired.
> Event time: 08/03/2006 12:34:40 PM
> Event time (UTC): 08/03/2006 5:34:40 PM
> Event ID: 19b1d9d2438841ccbe2fd732dec950b8
> Event sequence: 2
> Event occurrence: 1
> Event detail code: 50202
>
> Application information:
>     Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/4859720/Root-1-127863128795797591
>     Trust level: Full
>     Application Virtual Path: /
>     Application Path: c:\web\www.memoriestoscrap.ca\
>     Machine name: WEB-02
>
> Process information:
>     Process ID: 3564
>     Process name: w3wp.exe
>     Account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
>
> Request information:
>     Request URL:
> http://www.memoriestoscrap.ca/Sites/MemoriesToScrap/Themes/Tracy/Images/cdnflag50x25.jpg
>
>     Request path:
> /Sites/MemoriesToScrap/Themes/Tracy/Images/cdnflag50x25.jpg
>     User host address: 64.235.195.218
>     User:
>     Is authenticated: False
>     Authentication Type:
>     Thread account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
>
> Name to authenticate:
>
> Custom event details:
>
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>

Of course there is no additional information if I follow help and support
center link.

Any ideas would be helpful.

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Bill