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If you are authenticating by classic asp, you are only authentication pages that have your authentication page. Images, pdf files and other documents are not part of that authentication.<br />
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What you want to do is bury your documents that you want private outside of the www. &nbsp;Then use FileSystemObject <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa242706%28v=vs.60%29.aspx" rel="ugc">https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa242706%28v=vs.60%29.aspx</a>&nbsp;to retrieve and store using your vb coding.
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If you are authenticating by classic asp, you are only authentication pages that have your authentication page. Images, pdf files and other documents are not part of that authentication.

What you want to do is bury your documents that you want private outside of the www.  Then use FileSystemObject https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa242706%28v=vs.60%29.aspx [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa242706%28v=vs.60%29.aspx] to retrieve and store using your vb coding.

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Thank you. &nbsp;I will try these solutions tonight.
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Thank you.  I will try these solutions tonight.

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i have a website that uses form authentication. &nbsp;However when I point the url to a pdf file under the virtual directory it does not ask for a login. &nbsp;It will go directly to that file. &nbsp;I want it to login first.<br />
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Thank you
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i have a website that uses form authentication.  However when I point the url to a pdf file under the virtual directory it does not ask for a login.  It will go directly to that file.  I want it to login first.

Thank you

Windows Server 2003 IIS Virtual Directory not inheriting forms authentication

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft’s first server-side engine for dynamic web pages. ASP’s support of the Component Object Model (COM) enables it to access and use compiled libraries such as DLLs. It has been superseded by ASP.NET, but will be supported by Internet Information Services (IIS) through at least 2022.