Regular Expression on web.config location path attribute (with parameters)

Question

Is there any way of doing something like this?

<location path="/(view|edit)post.aspx\?id=[7-9][0-9]+">
    <system.web>
      <authorization>
        <allow roles="AdminPublishers"/>
        <deny users="*"/>
      </authorization>
    </system.web>
</location>

Authorization is just an example. I would like to be able to do other things with those locations.

Answer 1

You could use an HttpModule and attach a handler to the AuthenticateRequest event. Inside your handler, use your Regex to match against the incoming Request Url, and if it matches, check the roles of the user who is currently logged in. You could also set it up to read configuration from the Web.config, if that's what you're after.