Forms Authentication

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I am using FormsAuthentication in my website. When a user requests a page while they are not authenticated, they are redirected to the login page. Once the use is authenticated, the user is redirected to the requested page. I would like the application to ALWAYS redirect to the default page, not the requested page. Is this too much to ask?

Here's my web.config:

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<authentication mode="Forms">
    <forms loginUrl="~/Account/Login.aspx" timeout="2880" defaultUrl="Default.aspx" />
</authentication>

Here's my authentication code from the login page:

FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(employeeID, true);

What am I missing?? Thanks!

Posted 23-Dec-10 5:48am

jasonHall

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Not Active · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-23T06:07:00

Solution 1

Are you using the Login control? If so, handle the LoggedIn event and redirect as necessary

Posted 23-Dec-10 6:07am

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jasonHall 23-Dec-10 12:48pm

No, this is a custom Login page. I'm using my own authentication method by calling a stored procedure, not FormsAuthentication.Authenticate(). Perhaps I shouldn't use the RedirectFromLoginPage method and use Response.Redirect(), but then I don't understand how the rest of the application will know that the session is authenticated.

[no name] 23-Dec-10 14:11pm

RedirectFromLoginPage: Redirects an authenticated user back to the originally requested URL...

In your case then yes you would need to use Response.Redirect

jasonHall 23-Dec-10 14:35pm

If I use:
Response.Redirect("Default.aspx");
instead of:
FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(employeeID, true);

I'm just transfered back to the Login page. Obviously I am not redirecting correctly. Anyone have any input on how this can be done?

[no name] 23-Dec-10 14:54pm

Since where implementing your own login method I though you knew to call SetAuthCookie to set the authentication token

jasonHall 23-Dec-10 15:45pm

Well, I do now! :) So far, so good! For those of you wondering what that would look like, here is the code that I've used in the login form:
FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(employeeID, false);
Response.Redirect("~/Default.aspx");

Thanks Mark!