Re: Quick ? on Forms Authentication

From: oakleyx (Daniel.Peck_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: 29 Oct 2004 13:46:40 -0700

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the tip.

Everything works great, but I'm having a small problem. Just before I
redirect to my Default.aspx page I set a session. When I try and call
it later its null.

Here is the code

Session("whatever") = "hello"

FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(userName.Text, False,
FormsAuthentication.FormsCookiePath)

Response.Redirect("Default.aspx")

But when I take the code out and put:

Session("whatever") = "hello"
FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(myReader("userid"), False)
               
The sessions works. Can any one explain why this is happening.

Thanks,

"Patrick.O.Ige" <PatrickOIge@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<B710E73D-FB8C-4C32-A9EB-3387EFE21170@microsoft.com>...
> Hi Guys,
> So what does :-
> Response.Redirect(FormsAuthentication.GetRedirectUrl(txtUsername.Text, false))
> do.
> When i use it it redirects me to default.aspx(Which i guess it returns the
> default/webform1.aspx which is set as start page).
> I have my timeout in web.config set to 2.
> Why doesn't my page i logged into expire after 2 minutes!
> And again after login in i have a button for SignOut( below)
> But after clicking that i can still see a page thats under that directory
> when its suppose to redirect me to a login page!
> Sub SignOut(objSender As Object, objArgs As EventArgs)
> 'delete the users auth cookie and sign out
> System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication.SignOut()
> Session.Abandon()
> 'redirect the user to their referring page
> Response.Redirect("default.aspx")
> Any kind of advice needed!
>
>
>
> "Scott Mitchell [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > oakleyx wrote:
> > > I'm using asp.net form authentication. The problem i'm having is when
> > > my cookie expires it redirects me to the login page, so I log in again
> > > and it brings me to the page that I was on last before the cookie
> > > expired.
> > >
> > > Is there something I can do so that after I login it always redirect
> > > to the Default.aspx page?
> >
> > Daniel, the reason it's redirecting you to the page you were on is
> > because you are calling FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage() to
> > log the user on from your Logon.aspx page, no? This, as its name
> > implies, redirects the user back to the page they came from.
> >
> > Using Reflector - http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/ - you can see that
> > this method simply calls FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(), and then
> > manually does a Response.Redirect(). So, if you want to send users to
> > Default.aspx from your Logon page, when they login, instead of using
> > RedirectFromLongPage(), use SetAuthCookie() and then
> > Response.Redirect("Default.aspx")
> >
> > Here's a link to the technical docs for FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie():
> > http://tinyurl.com/66syy
> >
> > Happy Programming!
> >
> > --
> >
> > Scott Mitchell
> > mitchell@4guysfromrolla.com
> > http://www.4GuysFromRolla.com
> >
> > * When you think ASP.NET, think 4GuysFromRolla.com!
> >