How to restrict access to a folder?

[DaNuGai]

Using IIS6 and MySQL 5.0 on Windows Server 2003Here is the scenario:I have a database in MySQL with username and password. I know how to retrieve and write information from the database. However, I am not sure how secure it would be to use ADO to check username and password. So I am wondering if there is a secure way to check for authentication using ASP. Also, does anyone know how I can implement SSL in IIS and how to make certain ASP use SSL? Any tutorials or information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[justsomeguy]

ADO should be secure enough to authenticate, what are your concerns with using it?To use SSL, you need to install a certificate with IIS. So first you need to purchase the certificate from a certificate authority like Verisign or authorize.net. You should be able to find instructions on how to configure IIS to use the certificate with a Google search.In ASP, you can check the value of Request.ServerVariables("HTTPS") to see if they came in through SSL or not.