How do I direct all unlogged in users to https login?

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Hello, I need to redirect all unauthenticated users (All authenticated users will have a session cookie of sorts or possibly something else) to https://mywebsite.com/login.aspx

Also.. all users going to:

http://mywebsite.com/login.aspx needs to be redirected to:
https://mywebsite.com/login.aspx



I have read you do this through web.config..

but I cannot get this working:(

Code: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    
  <system.web>

    <!--  DYNAMIC DEBUG COMPILATION
          Set compilation debug="true" to insert debugging symbols (.pdb information)
          into the compiled page. Because this creates a larger file that executes
          more slowly, you should set this value to true only when debugging and to
          false at all other times. For more information, refer to the documentation about
          debugging ASP.NET files.
    -->
    <compilation defaultLanguage="vb" debug="true" />

    <!--  CUSTOM ERROR MESSAGES
          Set customErrors mode="On" or "RemoteOnly" to enable custom error messages, "Off" to disable. 
          Add <error> tags for each of the errors you want to handle.
    -->
    <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" />

    <!--  AUTHENTICATION 
          This section sets the authentication policies of the application. Possible modes are "Windows", 
          "Forms", "Passport" and "None"
    -->
    <authentication mode="Forms" > 


    <!--  AUTHORIZATION 
          This section sets the authorization policies of the application. You can allow or deny access
          to application resources by user or role. Wildcards: "*" mean everyone, "?" means anonymous 
          (unauthenticated) users.
    -->
                <forms loginUrl="login.aspx"

                  protection="All"              

                  requireSSL="true"             

                  timeout="30"                  

				  name="FormsAuthCookie"      

                  path="/"             
                  />  
                  
    </authentication>
    
                  
    <authorization>
        
          <deny users="?" />

        
         <!-- Allow all users -->

            <!--  <allow     users="[comma separated list of users]"
                             roles="[comma separated list of roles]"/>
                  <deny      users="[comma separated list of users]"
                             roles="[comma separated list of roles]"/>
            -->
    </authorization>

    <!--  APPLICATION-LEVEL TRACE LOGGING
          Application-level tracing enables trace log output for every page within an application. 
          Set trace enabled="true" to enable application trace logging.  If pageOutput="true", the
          trace information will be displayed at the bottom of each page.  Otherwise, you can view the 
          application trace log by browsing the "trace.axd" page from your web application
          root. 
    -->
    <trace enabled="false" requestLimit="10" pageOutput="false" traceMode="SortByTime" localOnly="true" />


    <!--  SESSION STATE SETTINGS
          By default ASP.NET uses cookies to identify which requests belong to a particular session. 
          If cookies are not available, a session can be tracked by adding a session identifier to the URL. 
          To disable cookies, set sessionState cookieless="true".
    -->
    <sessionState 
            mode="InProc"
            stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424"
            sqlConnectionString="data source=127.0.0.1;user id=sa;password="
            cookieless="true" 
            timeout="20" 
    />

    <!--  GLOBALIZATION
          This section sets the globalization settings of the application. 
    -->
    <globalization requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" />
   
  </system.web>

</configuration>

any ideas?
 
Could you do this in global.asax.vb in the BeginRequest block to check every incoming URL request and redirect them appropriately.
 
I may be wrong, but dont you want this in the authentication section-
Code: 
<forms loginUrl="[url="https://./login.aspx"]https://./login.aspx[/url]"
  protection="All" 
  requireSSL="true" 
  timeout="30" 
  name="FormsAuthCookie" 
  path="/" 
/>

and no one should go directly to login.aspx, ie, it shouldnt be your start page.
 
Joe Mamma said:
I may be wrong, but dont you want this in the authentication section-
Code: 
<forms loginUrl="[url="https://./login.aspx"]https://./login.aspx[/url]"
  protection="All" 
  requireSSL="true" 
  timeout="30" 
  name="FormsAuthCookie" 
  path="/" 
/>

and no one should go directly to login.aspx, ie, it shouldnt be your start page.
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That is what I have.. but it will not redirect users that are trying to access pdf files, jpg... basically it will not rediect any file except aspx.
 
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