Question

Hey guys I am trying to authenticate my solution from another website I have in mvc3 .net c#, the other site uses this post as authentication :

http://www.othersite.com/Account/logInToCMS?username=UNAME&password=PWD

I tried the following

<form  method="post" >
<input name='username' />
<input name='password' />
<div class="button"><%: Ajax.ActionLink("Login", "http://www.othersite.come/Account/logInToCMS" , new AjaxOptions { HttpMethod = "POST" })%></div>
</form>

but the response would result in an error which is:

“NetworkError: 400 Bad Request – http://localhost:50505/account/http%3a/www.othersite.com/Account/logInToCMS“

So if i could somehow remove the “http://localhost:50505/account/” part it would work

Answer 1

Ajax.ActionLink is meant to be used by specifying the Action and Controller on the web application that your form exists in. If you look at the method overloads for Ajax.ActionLink you’ll see you must specify at least the Action. Essentially what you are saying when you call ActionLink is that the Action you want to call is called http://www.othersite.come/Account/logInToCMS…which of course is incorrect.

If you are using jQuery then have a look at the jQuery.Ajax and jsonp for cross domain scripting.