Referesh page automatically after a timespan

add "Refresh" with some values in sec to the page header

c# - Response.AddHeader("Refresh", "30");

Popup a save dialog box along with refreshing the same page

insert a label on the page which is visible-false

when you need to pop the save dialog box.
insert "" into the label text and make the control visible.

this will result in pop up of dialog box (because of iframe, it is treated as a separate request) and refresh the page too.

Force Windows Authentication popup (Firefox)

C sharp:

Response.ClearHeaders();
Response.AppendHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache; private; no-store; must-revalidate; max-stale=0; post-check=0; pre-check=0; max-age=0"); // HTTP 1.1
Response.AppendHeader("Pragma", "no-cache"); // HTTP 1.1
Response.AppendHeader("Keep-Alive", "timeout=3, max=993"); // HTTP 1.1
Response.AppendHeader("Expires", "Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // HTTP 1.1
Response.Close();

Execute the following code on some action and browser will popup a dialog box for authentication

no-cache here refers to asp.net Session. If you remove it from the Cache-Control list, it will retain the Session variables.

Firefox Windows Authentication - removing dialog box

Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

To enable windows authentication on your domain.

1. Open Firefox

2. Navigate to the url about:config

3. Locate the following preference names and put as the value the comma separated values of the address roots.

network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris

network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris

network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris

Your value should look something like this: localhost,server1,server2,serverX


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