Thanks for pointing to this article. I am not sure if this will help me.
Let me explain my issue using a fictitiuos web site called "cakewalk.com".
The secure site is <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="https://intranet.cakewalk.com." target="_blank">https://intranet.cakewalk.com.</a> But I need to provide an
"http" version i.e. <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://intranet.cakewalk.com" target="_blank">http://intranet.cakewalk.com</a> that the users can set as
their default home page (without having to autheticate the user). The only
link on this page will be <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="https://intranet.cakewalk.com." target="_blank">https://intranet.cakewalk.com.</a> On clicking this
link the Windows authetication dialog box will be displayed.
The primary reason for doing this "dead" http page is that if the users set
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="https://intranet.cakewalk.com" target="_blank">https://intranet.cakewalk.com</a> as their default home page then the first
thing that they will be shown on launching the browser would be the Windows
authetication dialog box. The purpose of this "dead" page is to avoid
presenting the Windows dialog box until the user clicks on the "https" link.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
--AG
"Jacqueline Jaynes [MSFT]" <JackieJa@online@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Take a look at the following KB article, this may help you out:
>
> 239875 HOW TO: Use ASP to Force SSL for Specific Pages
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://support.microsoft.com/?id=239875</font" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/?id=239875</font</a>>
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> Hope this helps!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jackie Jaynes [MSFT]
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