"oakleyx" <Daniel.Peck@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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
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> > 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!
> > >