Sully - its a great idea and one that I have done in the past - here the issue the membership to these sites/applications is restricted and I had no hand in building them so they have no real membership system in the asp all the access is controlled by a product called Authentix which is an isapi filter that intercepts the calls to the server and checks if the person has permissions based on its programming

I need to find a solution to kick someone who may try to navigate directly to a page in the applications to a login - I would like to use DNN because it already has a membership system but its the asp pages that are giving me the fit

Well basically yes we disable the filter on the server - heres the rub ASP pages are run by a different program than .NET pages so if i hit a classic asp page the .NET program is never started so its authentication is never triggered - but otherwise you got it exactly - at least what i am tring to get it to do - got the membership stuff - got the userbase - just need something to tell my classic asp app 'hey are you authenticated "'

Sully wasnt shooting you down it would work but it doesnt achieve what i need at this point - I think I am relegated to hiring someone to add a login function thing to everypage

the good news is i can use DNN as the front end at least