Is Forms Authentication available on Standard

I have been looking at the forms authentication sample that creates a custom login page. After looking at the licencing am I right in saying that this can only be implemented using SQL server enterprise edition as standard edition does not have the security extension API. If this is the case is there any way to custom authenticate a user when using URL calls that is not windows Authentication?I have found the answer which is simply no. Back to Crystal Reports then. Good luck getting this off the ground when you have to buy Enterprise Edition just to securely provide reports over the web that have some kind of functionality.
"Ryan Smith" wrote:
> I have been looking at the forms authentication sample that creates a custom login page. After looking at the licencing am I right in saying that this can only be implemented using SQL server enterprise edition as standard edition does not have the security extension API. If this is the case is there any way to custom authenticate a user when using URL calls that is not windows Authentication?|||Web services does not support everything as it only provides a snapshot of
the report and does not have drill down functionality. If you have a report
that has drill downs (95% of my reports) in it and you run a webservice for
it, when the user clicks on the drill down they get an error.
"Richard" wrote:
> You can still build your own web app (report manager) and use the web service
> to communitate with it. I have gone over the api for the ws and it supports
> everyting you need. Yes it's a bit of work up front but there are no
> licensing issues at all
> "Ryan Smith" wrote:
> > I have found the answer which is simply no. Back to Crystal Reports then. Good luck getting this off the ground when you have to buy Enterprise Edition just to securely provide reports over the web that have some kind of functionality.
> >
> > "Ryan Smith" wrote:
> >
> > > I have been looking at the forms authentication sample that creates a custom login page. After looking at the licencing am I right in saying that this can only be implemented using SQL server enterprise edition as standard edition does not have the security extension API. If this is the case is there any way to custom authenticate a user when using URL calls that is not windows Authentication?