Question

I use forms authentication in web application. I have this in my config file. I use IIS 7

<forms loginUrl="~/Account/Login.aspx" cookieless="UseCookies" protection="All" 
       name=".ASPXAUTH" timeout="60" requireSSL="false" slidingExpiration="true"  
   enableCrossAppRedirects="false" defaultUrl="~/Dashboard.aspx" />

When i enter my site’s url in the address bar it redirects me to

Account/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f instead of Account/Login.aspx

I don’t know what the reason is , but when i use IIS 5.1 everything works fine.

Please help me.

Answer 1

Forms authentication redirection puts the source URL into the login.aspx request as a parameter so it can return the user the to the page they entered. %2f = /, e.g. the root of your site. If you had entered the www.example.com/coolstuff.aspx your ReturnUrl parameter would be ‘%2fcoolstuff.aspx’.

Nothing is wrong, that is how forms authentication is suppose to work.