SEO redirect problem

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When I run optimization report for my webmatrix website, I get multiple issues stating:
"the page contains unnecessary redirects". This is the code snippet that causes the problem:

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if(!WebSecurity.IsAuthenticated)
   {
      //navigate to login page
       Response.Redirect(App.PathUserLogin + "?returnUrl=" + Request.Url.LocalPath);
   }

Before using some pages the user has to log in and the above code is trying to redirect him/her to the login page (if he is not logged in). So why is it detected as unnecessary and how can I fix this?

Posted 6-May-13 23:33pm

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Gianmaria Gregori · Answer 1 · 2013-05-07T20:29:00

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Maybe could help the approach used in this tutorial [^]:
- create a subfolder (e.g. Members);
- put files you want to protect into this subfolder;
- in the Members subfolder, create a file named _PageStart.cshtml. When any page in the subfolder is requested, this page runs first;
- in the _PageStart.cshtml file, call WebSecurity.IsAuthenticated to determine whether the user is logged in. If they are not, redirect them to the login page.

Posted 7-May-13 20:29pm

Gianmaria Gregori

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cs101000 8-May-13 4:22am

Well I had implemented this and it was working. Problem was the given SEO error which I realized it's not important in my case according to this:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carlosag/archive/2009/06/12/redirects-301-302-and-iis-seo-toolkit.aspx
(Enter IIS SEO Toolkit, number 3)