itextsharp component and session values

Question

User1000638852 posted

I am trying to implement a pdf export using the free ITextSharp library. I am using a request and response to get the content of an aspx page then produce the pdf with the response's html through a streamreader. The problem I am having is that there is security on the page using session values, so when I call the page for the pdf generation, somehow the session values are lost and the ITextSharp object ends up trying to produce a pdf of the login page which is where a user would land if they have not entered their credentials.

HELP, please. I am lost. If I cannot do this with ITextSharp can someone suggest another PDF generator for HTML which will not be affected by my login/session security issues. Please, help.

Answer 1

User2010474417 posted

Hi,

You are correct i was also faced the same problem.For that i'm using print option.

Check this link ,

http://forums.asp.net/t/1546173.aspx

Regards,

Rajkumar M.

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Answer 2

User-457597647 posted

I use ABCpdf for converting HTML and active server pages to PDF.

It handles authentication methods built into HTTP, but ASP.NET forms based authentication needs a different approach. Because it's under your programmatic control a component can't authenticate itself - you have to authenticate the component!

You'll need to allow the component to pass in a username and password to your page, possibly encoded in the URL, and then have that page call the FormsAuthentication.Authenticate code.