TLS Website & System Logins

Most ASP.NET applications support network authentication, a more reliable method than HTML form posting, and with IronPDF, you can be assured that TLS network authentication is fully supported. This means you can work within secure, .NET web app-supported environments.

Take this code, for example, we use IronPDF's powerful Chromium-based rendering engine to render the web page as if it were being viewed in a browser, wherein the headers and footers are dynamically generated and added to the pages. Then, margins and styles are applied accordingly before the result is saved as a professional-looking PDF.

Steps for Rendering PDFs with TLS Website and System Logins

// Define the web page URL to render
var uri = new Uri("http://localhost:51169/Invoice");

// Create a new instance of ChromePdfRenderer
var renderer = new ChromePdfRenderer();

// Set rendering options including margins and media type
renderer.RenderingOptions = new ChromePdfRenderOptions
{
    CssMediaType = IronPdf.Rendering.PdfCssMediaType.Print // Apply print-specific styles
};

// Create login credentials if the URL requires basic authentication
renderer.LoginCredentials = new IronPdf.ChromeHttpLoginCredentials
{
    Username = "your-username",
    Password = "your-password"
};

// Render the URL as a PDF
IronPdf.PdfDocument pdf = renderer.RenderUrlAsPdf(uri);

// Save the PDF to a file in the current directory
pdf.SaveAs(Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), "UrlToPdfExample2.Pdf"));

// Define the web page URL to render
var uri = new Uri("http://localhost:51169/Invoice");

// Create a new instance of ChromePdfRenderer
var renderer = new ChromePdfRenderer();

// Set rendering options including margins and media type
renderer.RenderingOptions = new ChromePdfRenderOptions
{
    CssMediaType = IronPdf.Rendering.PdfCssMediaType.Print // Apply print-specific styles
};

// Create login credentials if the URL requires basic authentication
renderer.LoginCredentials = new IronPdf.ChromeHttpLoginCredentials
{
    Username = "your-username",
    Password = "your-password"
};

// Render the URL as a PDF
IronPdf.PdfDocument pdf = renderer.RenderUrlAsPdf(uri);

// Save the PDF to a file in the current directory
pdf.SaveAs(Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), "UrlToPdfExample2.Pdf"));

' Define the web page URL to render
Dim uri As New Uri("http://localhost:51169/Invoice")

' Create a new instance of ChromePdfRenderer
Dim renderer = New ChromePdfRenderer()

' Set rendering options including margins and media type
renderer.RenderingOptions = New ChromePdfRenderOptions With {.CssMediaType = IronPdf.Rendering.PdfCssMediaType.Print}

' Create login credentials if the URL requires basic authentication
renderer.LoginCredentials = New IronPdf.ChromeHttpLoginCredentials With {
	.Username = "your-username",
	.Password = "your-password"
}

' Render the URL as a PDF
Dim pdf As IronPdf.PdfDocument = renderer.RenderUrlAsPdf(uri)

' Save the PDF to a file in the current directory
pdf.SaveAs(Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), "UrlToPdfExample2.Pdf"))

Explanation

1. Define the Web Page URL:

   • The first step in this process is to define the web page URL. We create a new uri object representing the URL of the web page we want to render as a PDF. In this example, the page is hosted locally at "http://localhost:51169/Invoice".

2. Create the PDF Renderer:

   • Create a new instance of ChromePdfRenderer, which handles the conversion of web pages to PDF using its powerful conversion features.

3. Set Rendering Options:

   • Use the RenderingOptions property to configure the rendering options. Custom margins and media type for printing styles (IronPdf.Rendering.PdfCssMediaType.Print) are demonstrated here.

4. Set Login Credentials:

   • Configure LoginCredentials if the URL requires basic authentication. Here, placeholders for Username and Password are provided.

5. Render the URL as a PDF:

   • Use the RenderUrlAsPdf method to open the given uri within a headless Chromium browser and convert the web page into a PDF using the specified rendering options.
6. Save the PDF:
   • Finally, save the PDF using the SaveAs method to the current working directory with the filename "UrlToPdfExample2.Pdf".

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