requiressl forms authentication

Basically the application I am working on has a bunch of parameters that are all controlled from an xml config file, which contains configurations for each machine that runs the applcation (live and dev). The problem I have is, I want to be able to control the forms based authentication requiressl field, so that in the configuration file, I can specify this flag.

This should cause the requiressl flag to be true in the live environment, and there by enforce ssl and create a secured auth cookie aswell. For the dev environment, I do not wish to enforce ssl on all the dev machines.

I do not want to manipulate the web.config file to do this. I would like my application code to read in the xml configuration and set them accordingl开发者_开发知识库y.

I have tried using reflector to go into the sealed formsauthentication class, and have found that the requiressl property only has a get method, no set method.

I have also tried to implement the formsauthenticationconfiguration class, to no avail. - I am not sure that I am doing this correctly.

Any help in finding a possible solution to this would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Gurpreet

Attempt 1:

Subsequently I have tried this :

PropertyInfo field = typeof (FormsAuthentication).GetProperty("RequireSSL");
field.SetValue(typeof(FormsAuthentication), true, null)

I get an error message saying "Property set method not found"

Attempt 2: SOLVED

typeof (FormsAuthentication).GetField("_RequireSSL", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.NonPublic).SetValue(typeof(FormsAuthentication), Config.Secure);

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Although not recommended, You can use reflection to modify a private field (the backing store for the property).

Try here