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    <p>I have an existing ASP.NET application that implements Forms Authentication site-wide. The application is deployed in multiple instances (e.g., customer1, customer2, test, dev, etc...), with a separate database per instance. SSL is in play. Instance configuration is via an XML config file.</p> <p>I have a new requirement to allow upload/download of certain data, which I would like to implement as a public web service.</p> <p>My initial thought here was to selectively disable forms authentication for a subdirectory of the application (e.g., ~/Services), and then do authentication via a SOAP header or similar.</p> <p>However, I'm not finding a way to selectively disable forms auth.</p> <p>Question: Is there a way to do this? I've tried the &lt;location&gt; tag in web config to no avail.</p> <p>If not, what are your recommendations for how to set this up? I can think of the following options:</p> <p>1) Create a new "Services" project in my solution, and then configure a separate IIS ASP.NET application on that directory in each instance. (Pro: easy access to instance configuration, which may be needed in the future. Con: configuration burden for each relevant instance).</p> <p>2) Create a separate "Services" solution that references needed assemblies from the application solution and host it as a separate ASP.NET application. Then, lookup the db connection string based on the UserName provided in SOAP Header. (Pro: single app to configure in IIS. Con: No easy access to instance config.)</p> <p>3) ??</p> <p>Clarification: I did see the answer here: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/941909/override-asp-net-forms-authentication-for-a-single-page/941923#941923">Override ASP.NET forms authentication for a single page</a>, but the use of a location tag is not helping (requests for the web service are still redirected). The relevant sections in my web.config look like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;system.web&gt; &lt;authentication mode="Forms"&gt; &lt;forms loginUrl="Login.aspx"/&gt; &lt;/authentication&gt; &lt;authorization&gt; &lt;deny users="?"/&gt; &lt;allow users="*"/&gt; &lt;/authorization&gt; &lt;/system.web&gt; &lt;location path="~/Services/MyService.asmx"&gt; &lt;system.web&gt; &lt;authentication mode="None" /&gt; &lt;authorization&gt; &lt;allow users="*" /&gt; &lt;/authorization&gt; &lt;/system.web&gt; &lt;/location&gt; </code></pre>
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    1. COEvery time I've every used the location tag in a web.config the path has been in the form of "Services/MyService.asmx" not "~/Services/MyService.asmx" have you tried specifying it without the tilde-slash?
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    2. COThat was it. I could swear I had tried 3 different versions of that. This time I closed the browser and your solution worked perfectly.
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