Deep Site Integration - Help!

Hi guys,

I´m pretty much confused. I think the kind of integration you ask in previous topics are kind of easy and the API´s have a different approach of what I´m looking for (I think!). At least, I couldn´t find any topics on what I want to do.

What I´m looking for is:

- Integrate the login bar or user name in my website header - This means that all my webpages will show a login form or will have the user name that is logged in (by reading his cookie).

- Keep this login session through all my pages... so depending on the user being logged or not, I can offer him different access to my webpage. This usually doesn´t work that much with sessions in my server, because the application pool is usually reseted many times. So, If the user is not logged in by session variables, the code should check the cookies and log him again.

These are the main goals right now and the most important ones.

In other words... I want to use the WWF login system in my whole website (and not the opposite).

Questions:
- Will any API help with that ? (I don´t believe)
- Can anyone give me some hint of which .ASP I should start to study to understand how the login process and cookies works ?

Thanks Scotty32 !

I did some tests, hacked around and I think I did it. It now works... but I have a big concern:
Did you see how many includes the common.asp has ?  So, to only retrive login info from a user and make his session valid I´ll be adding tons of useless, forum specific codes.  And this will multiply for each of my website page, since I´ll show the quick login form or user name in the header.

It would be great to understand which includes I can use and keep this as simples as it can. Maybe creating another #include like common.asp, but that has only the basic login functions.

Can anyone from support give us some light ?