Re: When exactly Application_AuthenticateRequest event is fired?

hi,

AuthenticateRequest gets fired on each request -

if you want to add code there to get roles for the user do something like this:

if (Context.Request.IsAuthenticated)
{

// get roles
// create GenericPrincipal // set Context.User

}

after you call SetAuthCookie you need another roundtrip for this event to fire - e.g. a redirect to your main page etc...


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Dominick Baier - DevelopMentor
http://www.leastprivilege.com

Hello, friends,

In our forms authentication asp.net app, I used
FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie() to authenticate a new registered
user like the follows:

//...already create a new userID from our DB
FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(Request.Form["loginName"], true);
Then I planned in Application_AuthenticateRequest() to assign roles to
this new user using GenericPrincipal().

However, although I set breakpoint, it did not stop. I thought that
calling FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie() would trigger
Application_AuthenticateRequest() event.

So, at exactly what condition, an Application_AuthenticateRequest
event will be fired?

Thanks a lot.



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