[Mono-bugs] [Bug 579837] System.Configuration.Save() method throws an exception when trying to add an authorization section to an existing Web.config

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579837

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579837#c2


--- Comment #2 from Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com> 2010-09-15 18:08:55 UTC ---
Hello,

   System.Configuration support for Save() has not really been a priority for
us, because few people use it, and in cases like this, it does not do what you
think it should do.

   It does a few things: (a) it restart the application, because of a change in
web.config, this means that all running requests will be aborted until the new
settings take place;   (b) using a plain file-save operation to store your
settings is not multi-request safe in the presence of various users making
changes.

    We encourage developers to handle authentication and authorization through
a database.

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