I am new to this and hope someone will come to my rescue.

I am currently working on the User and Authentication chapter and am 
finding a problem to get the system to authenticate the user.

I have tried debugging the problem. I have managed to create a new user in 
the database but when I try to log in as that user I can't authenticate 
the user. The "Submit" event in the Login page successfully validates the 
user (via SitePrincipal.ValidateLogin) but I can't get the user 
authenticated via the "Context.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated" code within 
the SiteHeader control. Consequently the header of the page still shows me 
as the guest user.

I assume the system writes a cookie. Can anyone tell me where this is 
stored and what it is called? 

Am I missing anything else?? 

Switch trace on in the pages you are investigating.  This gives you a
lot of information about the HTTP stream.

If what you need is missing from trace you can write code to add items
to the trace output.  (For example you could extract cookies from the
HTTP headers.)

Details in the framework documentation or your .NET reference books.
(For this sort of thing I find Professional ASP.NET (from Wrox) to be
extremely useful.)

Mike Gale, Decision Engineering (NZ) Ltd.

PS.  If you are new at this it will take a time to become familiar with
HTTP, HTML, browsers, .NET...  Take your time.  Rome wasn't built in a
day.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: theraja [mailto:syam@t...] 
Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2002 12:37
To: Website Programming with ASP.NET
Subject: [aspdotnet_website_programming] User Authentication


I am new to this and hope someone will come to my rescue.

I am currently working on the User and Authentication chapter and am 
finding a problem to get the system to authenticate the user.

I have tried debugging the problem. I have managed to create a new user
in 
the database but when I try to log in as that user I can't authenticate 
the user. The "Submit" event in the Login page successfully validates
the 
user (via SitePrincipal.ValidateLogin) but I can't get the user 
authenticated via the "Context.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated" code
within 
the SiteHeader control. Consequently the header of the page still shows
me 
as the guest user.

I assume the system writes a cookie. Can anyone tell me where this is 
stored and what it is called? 

Am I missing anything else?? 

I installed Service Pack 2 for the .Net Framework today and suddenly I'm 
having the same problem. Although the MSDN website mentions that SP2 
addresses security issues, I don't see any items on the list of bugs 
fixed by SP2 as being relevant to this issue. Does anyone know what has 
changed that is causing this problem?