Question

I have the following code to add authentication cookie to the response and redirect to homepage

HttpCookie authCookie = FormsAuthentication.GetAuthCookie(username, true);
Response.Cookies.Add(authCookie);
Response.Redirect("~/Home/Home.aspx");

But in the Home.aspx, User.Identity.IsAuthenticated is still false. why?

Answer 1

Finally got it working. Here is it in nutshell

FormsAuthenticationTicket ticket = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(1,
        username,
        DateTime.Now,
        DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(30),
        isPersistent,
        userData,
        FormsAuthentication.FormsCookiePath);

      // Encrypt the ticket.
      string encTicket = FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(ticket);

      // Create the cookie.
      Response.Cookies.Add(new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName, encTicket));

I followed the code sample from this MSDN page: