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chris
chris

Reputation: 271

(Request.IsAuthenticated) is false after using FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(username,false)

I am building a website with VS2013 RC and MVC 5 and am trying to use formsAuthentification without registering permanent users on my site.

I'm posting to my company's api to authenticate user's names and passwords. When this comes back successfully, I want to issue an authorization cookie with:

System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(username, false);

I see the .ASPXAUTH=... cookie after this is called.

But, I can not get into the @if(User.Identity.IsAuthenticated) or alternatively @if(Request.IsAuthenticated) block on the template's _LoginPartial.cshtml page.

This technique did work for me in MVC 4 and I am trying to bend it to fit MVC 5's OWIN authentication.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 10784

Answers (4)

Musab
Musab

Reputation: 1127

I tried all the above solutions ,but the thing that solves my problem was commenting this in web.config

<modules>
<remove name="FormsAuthentication"/>
</modules>

Upvotes: 1

M. A. Cordeiro
M. A. Cordeiro

Reputation: 479

Those who still have this issue and have tried all above approaches I do recommend try add to the Web.Config file in the section authentication forms cookieless="UseCookies". In my case it worked fine.

<system.web>
<authentication mode="Forms">
  <forms loginUrl="~/Account/Login" cookieless="UseCookies" timeout="2880" />
</authentication>
...
</system.web>

Upvotes: 0

Reza
Reza

Reputation: 19843

If you don't want to fight against MVC5 new authentication mode (OWIN) you can find your answer in this link

http://www.khalidabuhakmeh.com/asp-net-mvc-5-authentication-breakdown-part-deux#disqus_thread

Upvotes: 2

chris
chris

Reputation: 271

I needed to enable forms authentication in the web.config

<system.web>
<authentication mode="Forms">
  <forms loginUrl="~/Account/Login" timeout="2880" />
</authentication>
...
</system.web>

Upvotes: 17

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