JQuery web methods and authentication

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Hi Guys,

Not a code question but more of a pattern. Can anyone point me in the direction of good practice handling with regards to webmethods exposed to Jquery controls with JSON and good security?

In brief, our asp.net pages utilize windows authentication with calls to user objects with roles etc. This is then stored in a session and accessed across webpages. Now utilizing a webmethod and ajax call, I can windows authenticate the user via Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity and add the relevant IIS security options on the web method but I obviously then need to do a user retrieval and all its roles and access rights. This would be fine if utilizing webservices with sporadic calls but here I have a webpage with cascading drop downs and I'd hate to have to check security rights ( not IIS ) in every webmethod call as I can't access sessions ( because I assume its outside of scope for the call ) and I don't want to have any form of security/rights info transfered to the client, rights should be determined by user on the server.

Any directions, paths , patterns that are common that I can look at?

Posted 8-Nov-11 20:11pm

Mario Luis

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Tejas Vaishnav · Answer 1 · 2011-11-08T21:45:00

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with regards to webmethods exposed to Jquery controls with JSON and good security?

Please see this link for this...
How to call webmethod using JSON[^]

Posted 8-Nov-11 21:45pm

Tejas Vaishnav

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Mario Luis 9-Nov-11 3:52am

The ajax call and control populate I'm not having an issue with, it's more the server side role/access control and the need to re-instantiate the roles etc on each web method that I want to avoid.