Hi all.

This is my first time here and I'm a complete noob... please be gentle. If I've posted this in the wrong place then please forgive me.

I'm currently experimentng with forms based authentication and using a custom membership provider. This seems to be OK at the moment.

The issue I'm facing is that I've denied anonymous access to the site and I'm making umbraco redirect to my login page (which at the moment, for testing, automatically validates the user and logs them in. Proper validation will occur a bit later once I have got this all worked out :-).

What I have noticed though is that "/umbraco/ping.aspx" also seems to get redirected to the login page which automatically logs it in. Since this is a server side request it really doesn't need to be logged in and I'm wondering how I can bypass the authentication and let it do what it has to without authentication. Once I have the proper authentication working this will cease to work, which will be bad.

I hope this makes sense to someone.

I've tried to allow anonymous access to the "umbraco " directory but that doesn't seem to help.

Can anyone help me with this, please?  :-)

Thanks.

All the best,

Tony