Windows Azure Basic Authentication

Question

I need to set up a test website in Windows Azure, and as a rule, to prevent random people from it, I would set up basic authentication with a kind of trivial password to filter people. Windows Azure does not seem to have this option.

What are the alternatives? Until now, I am considering the possibility of introducing another level of form authentication, but this is a lot of work, and it will need to be removed in the production version of the site.

The documentation for implementing Basic-Authentication in web.config is also terribly poor.

Answer 1

I think you can use the BasicAuthenticationModule demo module for IIS7 to achieve what you want - see the full code and instructions at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/170/developing-a-module- using-net /