Signout Not Working

~Bean~ · October 24th, 2005, 08:22 AM

I am trying to use FormsAuthentication on my site. I have stup my SQl database and my web config and global files and I have it working...the only problem is, I cannot log out. In my logout routine I have:

FormsAuthentication.SignOut

which doesn't work when I try anything like : User.Identity.Name I get results.

I also tried adding:

Context.Response.Cookies.Item(FormsAuthentication. FormsCookieName).Expires = Date.Now

to my log out routine but that doesnt work either...the only thing that seems to work to log out the user is closing the browser...

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Imar · October 24th, 2005, 01:07 PM

Do you redirect after your call to SignOut??

And what does IsAuthenticated return?

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

~Bean~ · October 24th, 2005, 01:11 PM

Yes, I do redirect:

Code:

Private Sub btnLogout_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnLogout.Click
    FormsAuthentication.SignOut
    Context.Response.Cookies.Item(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName).Expires = Date.Now.AddDays(-1)
    Response.Redirect("/home.htm")
End Sub

IsAuthenticated returns TRUE

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~Bean~ · October 24th, 2005, 01:51 PM

I think I found my problem...in my web.config I had:

Code:

<forms 
            loginUrl="Login.aspx" 
            name="sqlAuthCookie" 
            timeout="60" path="/sitename"
            protection="All"></forms>

I removed the path and it works now

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Imar · October 25th, 2005, 02:35 PM

Great. BTW, there is no need to manually kill the cookie; the SignOut call will do that for you...

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

fbanyai · July 12th, 2006, 08:35 AM

Hey ~Bean~, you've got it! I had the exactly same issue and your hint have solved it! Thanks!