Question

I have had some problems with authentication in ASP.NET. I’m not used most of the built in authentication in .NET.

I gotten some complaints from users using Internet Explorer (any version – may affect other browsers as well) that the login process proceeds but when redirected they aren’t authenticated and are bounced back to loginpage (pages that require authentication check if logged in and if not redirect back to loginpage). Can this be a cookie problem?

Do I need to check if cookies are enabled by the user?

What’s the best way to build authentication if you have a custom member table and don’t want to use ASP.NET login controls?

Here my current code:

using System;
using System.Linq;
using MyCompany;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using MyCompany.DAL;
using MyCompany.Globalization;
using MyCompany.DAL.Logs;
using MyCompany.Logging;

namespace MyCompany
{

    public class Auth
    {

        public class AuthException : Exception
        {
            public int StatusCode = 0;
            public AuthException(string message, int statusCode) : base(message) { StatusCode = statusCode;  }
        }

        public class EmptyEmailException : AuthException
        {
            public EmptyEmailException() : base(Language.RES_ERROR_LOGIN_CLIENT_EMPTY_EMAIL, 6) { }
        }

        public class EmptyPasswordException : AuthException
        {
            public EmptyPasswordException() : base(Language.RES_ERROR_LOGIN_CLIENT_EMPTY_PASSWORD, 7) { }
        }

        public class WrongEmailException : AuthException
        {
            public WrongEmailException() : base(Language.RES_ERROR_LOGIN_CLIENT_WRONG_EMAIL, 2) { }
        }

        public class WrongPasswordException : AuthException
        {
            public WrongPasswordException() : base(Language.RES_ERROR_LOGIN_CLIENT_WRONG_PASSWORD, 3) { }
        }

        public class InactiveAccountException : AuthException
        {
            public InactiveAccountException() : base(Language.RES_ERROR_LOGIN_CLIENT_INACTIVE_ACCOUNT, 5) { }
        }

        public class EmailNotValidatedException : AuthException
        {
            public EmailNotValidatedException() : base(Language.RES_ERROR_LOGIN_CLIENT_EMAIL_NOT_VALIDATED, 4) { }
        }

        private readonly string CLIENT_KEY = "9A751E0D-816F-4A92-9185-559D38661F77";

        private readonly string CLIENT_USER_KEY = "0CE2F700-1375-4B0F-8400-06A01CED2658";

        public Client Client
        {
            get
            {
                if(!IsAuthenticated) return null;
                if(HttpContext.Current.Items[CLIENT_KEY]==null)
                {
                    HttpContext.Current.Items[CLIENT_KEY] = ClientMethods.Get<Client>((Guid)ClientId); 
                }
                return (Client)HttpContext.Current.Items[CLIENT_KEY];
            }
        }

        public ClientUser ClientUser
        {
            get
            {
                if (!IsAuthenticated) return null;
                if (HttpContext.Current.Items[CLIENT_USER_KEY] == null)
                {
                    HttpContext.Current.Items[CLIENT_USER_KEY] = ClientUserMethods.GetByClientId((Guid)ClientId);
                }
                return (ClientUser)HttpContext.Current.Items[CLIENT_USER_KEY];
            }
        }

        public Boolean IsAuthenticated { get; set; }

        public Guid? ClientId { 
            get 
            {
                if (!IsAuthenticated) return null;
                return (Guid)HttpContext.Current.Session["ClientId"];
            } 
        }

        public Guid? ClientUserId { 
            get {
                if (!IsAuthenticated) return null;
                return ClientUser.Id;
            } 
        }

        public int ClientTypeId { 
            get {
                if (!IsAuthenticated) return 0;
                return Client.ClientTypeId;
            } 
        }

        public Auth()
        {
            if (HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
            {
                IsAuthenticated = true;
            }
        }

        public void RequireClientOfType(params int[] types)
        {
            if (!(IsAuthenticated && types.Contains(ClientTypeId)))
            {
                HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect((new UrlFactory(false)).GetHomeUrl(), true);
            }
        }

        public void Logout()
        {
            Logout(true);
        }

        public void Logout(Boolean redirect)
        {
            FormsAuthentication.SignOut();
            IsAuthenticated = false;
            HttpContext.Current.Session["ClientId"] = null;
            HttpContext.Current.Items[CLIENT_KEY] = null;
            HttpContext.Current.Items[CLIENT_USER_KEY] = null;
            if(redirect) HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect((new UrlFactory(false)).GetHomeUrl(), true);
        }

        public void Login(string email, string password, bool autoLogin)
        {
            Logout(false);

            email = email.Trim().ToLower();
            password = password.Trim();

            int status = 1;

            LoginAttemptLog log = new LoginAttemptLog { AutoLogin = autoLogin, Email = email, Password = password };

            try
            {
                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(email)) throw new EmptyEmailException();

                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(password)) throw new EmptyPasswordException();

                ClientUser clientUser = ClientUserMethods.GetByEmailExcludingProspects(email);

                if (clientUser == null) throw new WrongEmailException();

                if (!clientUser.Password.Equals(password)) throw new WrongPasswordException();

                Client client = clientUser.Client;

                if (!(bool)client.PreRegCheck) throw new EmailNotValidatedException();

                if (!(bool)client.Active || client.DeleteFlag.Equals("y")) throw new InactiveAccountException();

                FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(client.Id.ToString(), true);
                HttpContext.Current.Session["ClientId"] = client.Id;

                log.KeyId = client.Id;
                log.KeyEntityId = ClientMethods.GetEntityId(client.ClientTypeId);
            }
            catch (AuthException ax)
            {
                status = ax.StatusCode;
                log.Success = status == 1;
                log.Status = status;
            }
            finally
            {
                LogRecorder.Record(log);
            }

        }

    }

}

Answer 1

Try using built-in asp.net Forms Authentication (Membership).

You can learn from these videos:

Link1 and Link2

If you want to customize it watch this video:

Link