Suggestions for implementing personalization

I'm creating an e-commerce site and would like users to be able to freely
navigate the pages without signing in. However, authorization and
authentication is required to purchase products.
Currently I am using session variables to monitor if the user is logged in
or not. I have inherited a base page from the page class to handle the chec
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for this in every page.
Forms authentication seems to forceful for this situation where I would like
to remain 'hands-off' until the user decides to login.
Suggestions are greatly appreciated, thank you."examnotes" <NathanV@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:65AFB42E-B97D-464F-98C7-3C251BBAAED7@.microsoft.com:

> I'm creating an e-commerce site and would like users to be able to
> freely navigate the pages without signing in. However, authorization
> and authentication is required to purchase products.
> Currently I am using session variables to monitor if the user is
> logged in or not. I have inherited a base page from the page class to
> handle the check for this in every page.
> Forms authentication seems to forceful for this situation where I
> would like to remain 'hands-off' until the user decides to login.
What you probably want is to implement roles based authentication.
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